World leaders will meet in Rome, Italy, from June 3-5 to seek ways of reducing the suffering for the world's poorest people and ensure the Earth can produce more food to sustain an ever growing population.
Jacques Diouf, head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), said that some 40 heads of state or government are expected to attend the meeting.
Delegates from 151 countries are expected to make worthy statements on beating poverty, but the talks may reveal divisions on several underlying food and hunger-related issues: free trade, biofuels and genetically modified organisms.
In a report released recently, the FAO forecast that food prices would remain high over the next decade even if they fall from current records.
World Bank President Robert Zoellick underlined the urgency of the problem, announcing US$1.2 billion in loans and grant financing for countries struggling with food and fuel costs.
VOVNews/Reuters
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