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UN food summit battles it out on biofuels
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Global food production must be doubled by 2030 and farmers in poor countries better supported, a UN summit on the current food crisis has concluded. (article 15)
After three days of wrangling, delegates from about 180 countries approved a declaration resolving to ease the suffering caused by soaring food prices and step up investment in agriculture. (article 17)
ROME - It was supposed to be an emergency conference on food shortages, climate change, and energy. (article 9)
Between $15 billion and $20 billion will be needed each year to increase food production to tackle the growing global food crisis, the head of the United Nations said Wednesday. (article 11)
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, speaking to reporters at an international food summit in Rome, said much of that cash would come from nations working to avert the crisis in food costs and supplies. (article 11)
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 2)
ROME (Reuters) - African countries and anti-poverty campaigners looked to the outcome of a food crisis summit on Thursday for a signal the world will start to produce solutions to stop millions more people falling into hunger. (article 14)
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Global food production must be doubled by 2030 and farmers in poor countries better supported, a UN summit on the current food crisis has concluded. (article 4)
" The hungry man is an angry man UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told a summit in Rome called to address the food price crisis. (article 5)
" This crisis suddenly makes poverty in urban areas very visible explains James Garrett of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). (article 5)
Biofuel uses the energy contained in organic matter - crops like sugarcane and corn - to produce ethanol, an alternative to fossil-based fuels like petrol. (article 1)
Campaigners claim the heavily subsidised biofuel industry is fundamentally immoral, diverting land which should be producing food to fill human stomachs to produce fuel for car engines. (article 1)
Also at the summit, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said there was an "urgent need" for international policy guidelines on biofuel production. (article 2)
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 3)
Poorer countries are faced with a 40% increase in their food imports bill this year, and experts say some countries' food bills have doubled in the past year. (article 3)
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- UN food crisis summit delegates work on compromise (Washington Post, 06/05/2008, 377 words)
- World leaders urged to address food crisis (L.A. Times, 06/04/2008, 669 words)
- U.S. food policy under fire at summit (L.A. Times, 06/05/2008, 834 words)
- U.S. fuel policies met with criticism at food summit (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 06/05/2008, 400 words)
- U.S., aid groups clash over biofuels - (baltimoresun.com, 06/06/2008, 158 words)
- UN food summit battles it out on biofuels (Washington Post, 06/05/2008, 635 words)
- Bioenergy: Fuelling the food crisis? (BBC News, 06/04/2008, 884 words)
- UN summit: corn on table or in tank? (sfgate.com, 06/05/2008, 741 words)
- Amid calls for unity, politics divide UN food conference (boston.com, 06/05/2008, 696 words)
- Leaders Speak of Their Own Issues at a Conference Addressing Food Shortages (nytimes.com, 06/05/2008, 1142 words)
- Billions needed annually to raise food production: UN chief (cbc.ca, 06/04/2008, 599 words)
- UN increases food aid by $1.2bn (BBC News, 06/04/2008, 467 words)
- UN sets out food crisis measures (BBC News, 06/03/2008, 493 words)
- ABC News: U.N. Demands 'Green Revolution' for Africa (ABCNews, 06/04/2008, 328 words)
- UN moves to tackle food crisis (BBC News, 06/06/2008, 539 words)
- Food summit blames trade barriers, queries biofuel (Washington Post, 06/03/2008, 336 words)
- Leaders at UN summit pledge to ease food crisis (Washington Post, 06/05/2008, 622 words)
- Food summit ends with contentious resolution (L.A. Times, 06/05/2008, 583 words)
- Food summit delegates vow to cut world hunger by half by 2015 (cbc.ca, 06/05/2008, 413 words)
- World hunger's urban edge (BBC News, 06/05/2008, 880 words)
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Source articles
- Bioenergy: Fuelling the food crisis? (BBC News, 06/04/2008, 884 words)
- UN increases food aid by $1.2bn (BBC News, 06/04/2008, 467 words)
- UN sets out food crisis measures (BBC News, 06/03/2008, 493 words)
- UN moves to tackle food crisis (BBC News, 06/06/2008, 539 words)
- World hunger's urban edge (BBC News, 06/05/2008, 880 words)
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