A United Nations summit on the global food crisis has kicked off in Rome with a call to reduce trade barriers and do away with food export bans.
The call came from United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who also said that world food production would have to rise by 50 percent by the year FAO food crisis summit kicks off in Rome ...
German minister calls for reversal of EU policy on agriculture ... 2030 to keep up with demand. Jacques Diouf, the head of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, which is hosting the summit, said farm subsidies and excess consumption by the world's rich nations were among the leading contributors to the crisis. German Development Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul said it was scandalous that at the start of the 21st century more than 800 million people were suffering from hunger and malnourishment.
(Deutsche Welle)
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