Next week, June 3-5 Rome hosts the UN Food Crisis Summit which is aimed to raise awareness of the problem of hunger in poor countries, provide aid to the countries that face malnutrition and define some stragedies for improving food production.

The summit is hosted by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation. Some of the problems set to be discussed are the establishment of a global food fund and new international guidelines on the cultivation of biofuels.

During the last months thirty-seven countries have been hit hard by the growth in prices for products like soya beans, wheat, sugar and dairy products, which resulted in food riots (Cameroon, Niger, Egypt and Haiti). The summit in Rome is the first of a series of meetings organised to resolve the problem.
2008.05.30