The food crisis can not be a 'forgotten crisis' of the worldwide effort to quell the financial crisis was raging intense "relieve" the interest of the international community should for the food crisis, which is the largest global concerns. Analysts said that the food crisis is far from resolved well once the largest agricultural producers in the vortex of the financial crisis and in the future, the issue of food security will remain a post thorny problem. The main cause of the food crisis on the latest report "Prospects of Food" Food-Agriculture Organisation (FAO), food prices increased from 2005 to 2007 pushed 75 million people into the state hunger, bringing the total number of undernourished people worldwide to 923 million. Mr. Phang Cheng (Cheng Fang), a senior economist at the FAO noted that in addition to the traditional factors affecting food security as the world population increases, lack of arable land and water resources, the non-factor tradition as the development of biofuels and climate change are also the cause of no small impact on the global food situation. Mr. Phang Cheng said climate change has caused great damage to farming, aquaculture, seafood and particularly strong impact on the living conditions of people in rural areas, which had been affected more from the world economic crisis. Meanwhile, the development of biofuels from crops is increasingly reducing the food supply. Biofuel production has increased more than threefold from 2000 to 2007 and demand for sugar cane, maize, oilseed crops and raw materials for biofuel production is expected to continue to increase in 10 years. This is considered the leading cause affect food prices in the future. FAO Director General James Go-facing connector (Jacques Diouf) warns that the development of biofuels threatens to alter the role of agricultural land. He called on the countries involved in the world consider the issue of food security in policy making of the country. The financial crisis increasingly exacerbate the food crisis The global financial crisis is happening with greater impact on food security and agricultural market in terms of both production and consumption. Secretary warns the Intergovernmental Committee in charge of FAO's food problem, Mr. Abraham, urging Andrew-da-ba-apply pressure (Abdolreza Abbassian), world food market in the coming years will unstable due to the credit crisis are now concentrated mainly in the area of food production, such as the US, Europe and Brazil. In addition, financial volatility also affected more purchasing power. Many people have switched to cheaper staple foods more nutritious and less, this can lead to a number of undernourished people is increasing, especially in poor countries. Amount financed $ 20 billion that rich countries pledged at food summit FAO meeting in Rome (I-ta-li-a) last June to help the countries most severe food shortages , just enough to settle temporarily for around one quarter (200 million) the number of people going hungry in the world. Not to mention, the rich countries can "forget" the commitments they made if the world financial crisis lasts. The solution to the problem of world agriculture is necessary The main task of the large agricultural countries in the world today is to double food production by 2050, will be able to "feed" is a planet with a population of 9 billion people. He jack-engine go-face has proposed the organization now a food summit in the first half of 2009 in order to plan your strategy and seek new agricultural aid to $ 30 billion / year to pay victims global hunger. Speaking at a special meeting of the Board of Directors composed of 191 member countries of FAO, Mr. Go-face that the holding of a summit of world food is essential because after more than 60 years of operation (established since FAO), have created a new system for global food security. /.
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