The global increase in prices of wheat and wheat-related products is compounding the already dire health and economic situation in the Gaza Strip. Wheat prices have shot up worldwide over the past few months, partly as a result of the transformation of what used to be wheat-fields to fields growing bio-fuel crops. If the price of wheat flour used to cost $300 per metric ton, it has shot up to $500 per metric ton since the beginning of the year, said Kirstie Campbell, a spokeswoman for the World Food Program in the Palestinian territories. Read the full story… [1]