World leaders to address food crisis in Rome
Monday, 2 June 2008
ROME, June 1 (AFP): World leaders are set to gather in Rome Tuesday for a high-profile summit on food security as runaway prices have sparked riots across the world.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will open the conference by unveiling an "action plan" to confront the scourge, diplomats said ahead of the conference, which lasts through Thursday, at the Food and Agriculture Organisation's headquarters here.
Unrest tied to food price inflation has erupted in Egypt, Haiti, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Ethiopia, Madagascar, the Philippines and Indonesia, turning the long-scheduled FAO conference into an emergency meeting, Director General Jacques Diouf said last month.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will open the conference by unveiling an "action plan" to confront the scourge, diplomats said ahead of the conference, which lasts through Thursday, at the Food and Agriculture Organisation's headquarters here.
Unrest tied to food price inflation has erupted in Egypt, Haiti, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Ethiopia, Madagascar, the Philippines and Indonesia, turning the long-scheduled FAO conference into an emergency meeting, Director General Jacques Diouf said last month.