UN warns it cannot afford to feed the world

15 July 2007

Rising prices for food have led the United Nations programme fighting famine in Africa and other regions to warn that it can no longer afford to feed the 90m people it has helped for each of the past five years on its budget(...)


She said policymakers were becoming more concerned about the impact of biofuel demand on food prices and how the world would continue to feed its expanding population.

The warning could re-ignite the debate on food versus fuel amid concerns biofuel production will sustain food inflation and hit the world’s poorest people....

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Comment: After the well-known brutal policy of 'feeding farm animals instead of people' the development takes an even more perverse turn: 'Take food from the hungry to power the cars of the rich'

Source: UN warns it cannot afford to feed the world

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