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"Thanks to the decades long conflict in Colombia, it's estimated that 4 million people have been displaced. Making it the second largest displaced population in the world. Many of them are union leaders and others activists from the left. Yesterday, some of these refugees came to the White House to remind the US that their policies and practices in Colombia have not gone unnoticed. Policies that ignore the atrocities of corporations in search of minerals and resources. Alyona talks with RT Correspondent Jihan Hafiz who is following the story."

Earthquake off Indonesia's Aceh triggers tsunami alert

"An earthquake of magnitude 7.4 has struck offshore near the Indonesian island of Sumatra, near Aceh province.

The quake struck 214km (133 miles) south of Aceh's capital of Banda Aceh, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.

A local tsunami alert was issued and later lifted by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.

The site is very near that of 2004's 9.2 magnitude earthquake. About 220,000 people were killed in the Indian Ocean tsunami the quake triggered."

Jersey Royal potato crop threatened by drought

"A drought is threatening to significantly cut this year's Jersey Royal potato crop, growers have warned.

The first yield could be cut by 50% following the worst drought on the Channel island in 34 years, the Jersey Royal Company told The Grocer magazine."

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"Food inflation that has been stuck in the double digits for a year has had a deep impact on school lunches, family meals and holy offerings.

Anger with high prices erupted into protests last week that disrupted flights, trains and traffic."

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'Bee rustlers' sting Japanese apiarists

"The price of honeybees has doubled in recent years after a ban on imports. Police suspect a gang of specialist thieves is stealing honeybees to order."

Fears for crops as shock figures from America show scale of bee catastrophe

A further indicator of the coming food shortages.

"In the UK alone, honeybee pollination is valued at £200m. Mankind has been managing and transporting bees for centuries to pollinate food and produce honey, nature's natural sweetener and antiseptic. Their extinction would mean not only a colourless, meatless diet of cereals and rice, and cottonless clothes, but a landscape without orchards, allotments and meadows of wildflowers – and the collapse of the food chain that sustains wild birds and animals."

Cost of nuts in supermarkets set to soar

Food prices will be going up rapidly over the coming months. There is a perfect storm of economic, social, environmental and political events occurring that will see your weekly shopping bill soar.

Stock up while you can.