April 28th 2008
Let’s have some decisions about the global food crisis
In Berne, Switzerland, over the next few days, the heads of the UN, World Bank, World Trade Organization, and several other development agencies will discuss what to do about the global food crisis. The rocketing prices of staple foods worldwide has been very much in the news recently, as has the rush to announce increased food aid. There has also been a flurry of high-level emergency-meeting scheduling. But, as we argue in our long leader this week, what has been distinctly lacking is a sense that some major decisions are going to have to be made—on trade, on ill-advised biofuels policies—and with major consequences for Western nations.
Will anyone at the Berne meeting (or any of the other meetings coming up) stick their head above the parapet?
Zoë Mullan
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