Soaring food prices and growing hunger and malnutrition worldwide point to a food crisis caused by various factors such as rising demand from major economies, climate and weather-related events, high oil prices, and the rise of biofuels. In an article that appeared in the Washington Post entitled “The New Face Of Hunger” last March 12, 2008, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon describes “the new face of hunger” that is affecting vulnerable communities and proposes steps to be taken in order to beat hunger and meet the Millenium Development Goals. These include “dealing with the increasing consequences of weather-related shocks to local agriculture, as well as the long-term consequences of climate change” and boosting agricultural production. (Photo courtesy of www.worldrevolution.org.)
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