PM urges world food prices action
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The prime minister said global food prices were at their highest since 1945 and tackling hunger was "a moral challenge" for everyone. (article 2)
The United Nations secretary general says the world must urgently increase food production to ease skyrocketing prices and has pledged to set up a task force on a crisis threatening to destabilize developing nations. (article 8)
The International Monetary Fund on Monday gave its starkest warning about the impact of rising commodities, saying food and oil prices "risk becoming a destabilising force in the global economy". (article 1)
Rick Wagoner, General Motors chairman and chief executive, has dismissed United Nations research that links biofuel production to rising food prices as "shockingly misinformed". (article 7)
The blunt assessment by the head of the world's largest car company reinvigorates intense debate about ostensible social costs and environmental benefits of biofuels, a burgeoning industry some analysts say crowds out food production. (article 7)
The secretary-general is just the latest to sound the growing alarm over the effect that rising food prices is having around the world. (article 9)
Urgent action to help the world's poorest farmers help themselves would make a significant contribution to tackling the global food crisis in a single growing season, according to Jeffrey Sachs (article 10)
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Food, prices, Biofuels, World, crops |
Source articles
- G8 summit to discuss food price rises (ft.com, 04/21/2008, 480 words)
- PM urges world food prices action (BBC News, 04/22/2008, 439 words)
- Global approach required to tackle food prices (ft.com, 04/20/2008, 638 words)
- World's farmers urged to cut fossil fuel use - (baltimoresun.com, 04/21/2008, 301 words)
- ABC News: Biofuels Blamed for Rise in Food Prices (ABCNews, 04/21/2008, 318 words)
- Leaders warn on biofuels and food (BBC News, 04/22/2008, 459 words)
- GM chief hits at UN data on biofuel (ft.com, 04/20/2008, 298 words)
- Urgent need to raise worldwide food production: UN chief (cbc.ca, 04/21/2008, 318 words)
- ABC News: 'Silent Tsunami': The Food Price Crisis (ABCNews, 04/20/2008, 429 words)
- Scheme for farmers finds fertile ground (ft.com, 04/19/2008, 470 words)
- With crops destroyed, a food crisis looms in Bangl... (suntimes.com, 04/21/2008, 630 words)
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