Oxfam Releases a Food Crisis Plan
This week, while world leaders continue their emergency summit in Rome to discuss the staggering increase of food prices around the globe, Oxfam International released a plan for short and long-term responses to the crisis.
You can download their report, titled, “The Time is Now: how world leaders should respond to the food price crisis,” from their website today.
A quick outline of the brief:
1) From food prices to food crisis
2) Provide immediate aid to prevent hunger and malnutrition
3) Support agriculture
4) Stop adding fuel to the fire by pushing biofuels
5) Help poor countries get a fair deal from trade
6) Get behind a ‘new deal’ for global food and agriculture policy
7) Conclusion: the time is now.
Again, all compliments of Oxfam’s great team, but I wanted to pass it along. The food crisis is going to be around for a while and there’s a lot of good information in this report.
-Virginia Simmons
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