20.11.2008 - U.N. calls food summit in 2009, hopes for fair trade

From Nytimes.com: The world should hold a food summit in the first half of next year to seek fairer trade and help farmers in poor countries make a decent living, the head of the United Nations food agency said on Wednesday. Jacques Diouf, head of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), said the summit would seek to reform trade, encourage greater food production in developing countries and ensure funding for infrastructure and agricultural productivity..... Full Article: Source

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