Super Summit of the United Nations to solve the food crisis

Release Date：2013/2/10 14:02:38 | Posted by：Dongguan Aohong Electronics Co., Ltd

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, 28, 29 days in the Swiss capital, Bern auspices of the Food Summit, convened 27 major international institutions to participate in the discussion of how to respond to the growing global food crisis. The 27 institutions under the jurisdiction of the United Nations agencies. Ban Ki-moon said before, I hope through two days of closed-door meeting to discuss the appropriate contingency measures and other long-term solution to solve the food crisis.

 

The United Nations said: "the global food crisis and the United Nations can provide the solutions is the central theme of the meeting." According to informed sources, the meeting also discussed the problem of market protectionism and biofuels in-depth study.

 

25, 2009, in Vienna, Ban Ki-moon said the world has recently added about 100 million poor need assistance before food prices, and these people do not need assistance. He said that the medium and long term, the international community and leaders should work together to discuss ways to improve the economy and distribution systems to improve the production of agricultural products (Stock Forum).

 

Sheeran, Executive Director of World Food Programme (WFP), World Bank President Robert Zoellick, the United Nations Organization (FAO) Director-General Diouf, president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Borghese attended the meeting.

 

FAO had warned that soaring food prices have led to the outbreak of riots and other social unrest in 37 countries around the world. WFP also issued an urgent appeal, asked the international community to extend their contributions to fill a its assistance funding gap of $ 755 million,.

 

World Trade Organization (WTO) Director General Pascal Lamy also attended the meeting in Bern. He said that the global food crisis further demonstrates the need for open markets.

 

"Agricultural subsidies in developed countries ruined agriculture in poor countries," WTO spokesman said, "The world urgently needs a more open system, in order to reduce the variety of competition and the loss is not necessary."

 

Somavia, Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO) warned that, merely seeking a temporary solution to deal with the current crisis is very dangerous, and after a period of time, a similar crisis could happen again.

 

Chairman of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Strauss - Kahn criticized trade protectionism and the practice of using grain to produce biofuels, and called for coordinated global agricultural policies.

 

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