With these words, Jacques Diouf, Director-General of FAO, said in opening the UN summit on food, which runs from 3 to 5 June in Rome, the urgency to develop a plan action to address the food crisis affecting many countries in the world. Originally scheduled on the theme of the challenges of climate change and bioenergy, the objective of this summit, long planned, was redefined to cope with the global situation of soaring food prices, with consequences that we know: queue outside the bakeries, food riots, social unrest up to the fall of the government as was the case in Haiti. Thus, more than 190 countries, fifty heads of state, including President Nicolas Sarkozy, and Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, President of the International Monetary Fund, which are expected to attend the Summit, as reported in Le Monde Laetitia Clavreul this day. .

It must be said that the situation is more worrisome.

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For its part, the World journalist also relays the proposals of the FAO and the UN. Beyond the current situation, another issue is emerging: that of feeding 9 billion people by 2050. It will produce two to three times while the area available for crops are not expandable. A perspective that we must consider now.

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