food crisis

UN-backed 2009 summit on world food crisis gains support

23 March 2009
A proposed 2009 world summit on the food crisis, which continues in poor countries despite falling commodity prices, is rapidly gaining backing and growing in relevance, the United Nations agricultural agency said today.

Food price fluctuation driven by financial speculation – UN report

19 March 2009
Both the surging food prices from 2007 to 2008 and their subsequent drop in some areas are a result of large-scale speculation by financial investors, according to a new report by the United Nations trade body, which called for greater regulation to protect millions of poor people worldwide.
FAO Goodwill Ambassador Roberto Baggio

UN unites with European soccer stars to ‘red card’ global hunger

11 March 2009
The biggest stars in professional football and millions of their fans will aim to score a goal against global hunger in the first-ever Europe-wide soccer weekend to draw attention to the plight of the nearly 1 billion hungry people worldwide, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced today.

Food crisis not yet over, warns top UN rights official

9 March 2009
Despite falling food prices worldwide, the global food crisis has not ended, the top United Nations human rights official cautioned today, emphasizing the need to view the issue through the very basic right to adequate food.
Secretary-General addresses UNIS-UN food crisis meeting

Greater efforts must be made to realize every person’s right to food – Ban

5 March 2009
With the number of hungry people around the world surging amid the current global financial crisis and the effects of climate change, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed the need to scale-up efforts to combat hunger and realize every person’s right to food.