Global food crisis ‘silent tsunami’ threatening over 100 million people, warns UN: un.org
"22 April 2008 – The head of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today called for urgent action to tackle the “silent tsunami” of rising food prices"
"“The response calls for large-scale, high-level action by the global community, focused on emergency and longer-term solutions,” she added."
"Stressing the role of partnerships in fighting the food “emergency,” she said WFP has been working with donor governments, other UN agencies, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund and other humanitarian actors, including non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to ensure a coordinated response."
"In a related development, World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick has welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda’s intention to put the food crisis on the agenda of the Group of Eight summit, to be held in Japan in July."
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"High level action by the global community", and "Stressing the role of partnerships":
How to 'unite' the world, which if careful attention is paid to the language used, has now already become a "global community"? (now it just remains to get it to function as a "community"). This uniting will be accomplished through the "role of partnerships"...and this is being done by building one partnership at a time...see: collaborative-networks
As seen in this article above, Japan is on board. They have their own "food crisis" see: here
the countdown has begun
"22 April 2008 – The head of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today called for urgent action to tackle the “silent tsunami” of rising food prices"
"“The response calls for large-scale, high-level action by the global community, focused on emergency and longer-term solutions,” she added."
"Stressing the role of partnerships in fighting the food “emergency,” she said WFP has been working with donor governments, other UN agencies, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund and other humanitarian actors, including non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to ensure a coordinated response."
"In a related development, World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick has welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda’s intention to put the food crisis on the agenda of the Group of Eight summit, to be held in Japan in July."
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"High level action by the global community", and "Stressing the role of partnerships":
How to 'unite' the world, which if careful attention is paid to the language used, has now already become a "global community"? (now it just remains to get it to function as a "community"). This uniting will be accomplished through the "role of partnerships"...and this is being done by building one partnership at a time...see: collaborative-networks
As seen in this article above, Japan is on board. They have their own "food crisis" see: here
the countdown has begun
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