UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon began talks yesterday in Berne (Switzerland) with key development agencies on how to tackle the crisis provoked by soaring food and fuel prices and put an estimated 100 million of the world’s poorest people on the brink of starvation. The prices of staple foods like rice, grain, oil and sugar are all at least 50 per cent higher than they were this time last year.
Asia News UN’s emergency plan against world food crisis
What is extraordinary about the current situation is that it echoes in so many respects an earlier world food crisis: that of 1973-74
Paul Rogers at Open Democracy The world’s food insecurity
