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World food supply must rise 50%, Ban Ki Moon tells Rome summit
Summary from the United Kingdom, from articles in English
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Rich countries must reform trade tariffs and food production must soar to feed hungry, UN chief tells world food summit. (article 3)
A United Nations summit on resolving the world's food crisis opened this morning with a call from Ban Ki-moon for world farm production to rise by 50 per cent by 2030 to meet growing demand. (article 2)
The three day summit, organised by the Rome-based UN Food and Agriculture Organization, follows massive food price rises over the past three years. (article 2)
Ed Schafer claimed that biofuels are responsible for only 2-3 percent of the predicted 43 per cent rise in food prices this year. (article 2)
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today used his visit to Rome for the UN summit on food prices and climate change to attack Israel's "criminal and terrorist Zionist regime", while also lambasting global capitalism. (article 1)
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged nations to seize an "historic opportunity to revitalise agriculture" as a way of tackling the food crisis. (article 5)
As representatives of the world's governments gather to address shortages in major foodstuffs and rising prices, Gonzalo Oviedo counsels them to focus on ecosystems. (article 4)
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Source articles
- President Ahmadinejad attacks Israel and capitalism over oil prices and food shortages (timesonline.co.uk, 06/03/2008, 469 words)
- World food supply must rise 50%, Ban Ki Moon tells Rome summit (timesonline.co.uk, 06/03/2008, 487 words)
- European News (timesonline.co.uk, 06/04/2008, 417 words)
- Unnatural roots of the food crisis (BBC News, 06/02/2008, 3467 words)
- UN sets out food crisis measures (BBC News, 06/03/2008, 493 words)
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