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World food supply must rise 50%, Ban Ki Moon tells Rome summit
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ROME World powers must act quickly and boldly to control soaring food prices that threaten nearly 1 billion people with hunger and could trigger devastating social unrest across the globe, the United Nations said Tuesday. (article 7)
At a three-day emergency food summit, U.N. officials urged nations to eliminate trade barriers, expand biotechnology research and boost production with an annual investment of $20 billion to $30 billion. (article 7)
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)
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 6)
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- 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)
- Bush heads wrong way on global food crisis... (suntimes.com, 06/03/2008, 603 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)
- World leaders urged to address food crisis (L.A. Times, 06/04/2008, 673 words)
- Food summit heads for biofuels clash (ft.com, 06/03/2008, 575 words)
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