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UN chief warns world must urgently increase food production
By FRANCIS KOKUTSE
Associated Press Writer
20th April 2008

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) - The U.N. chief warned Sunday that the world must urgently increase food production to ease skyrocketing prices and pledged to set up a task force on a crisis threatening to destabilize developing nations.
The cost of food has increased by around 40 percent since mid-2007 worldwide, and the strain has caused riots and protests in countries like Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Haiti and Egypt.

"We must make no mistake, the problem is big. If we offer the right aid, the solutions will come," Ban said at the opening of a a five-day U.N. conference on trade and development in Ghana's capital, Accra.

"One thing is certain, the world has consumed more than it has produced" over the last three years, he said.

Ban blamed a host of causes for the soaring cost of food, including rising oil prices, the fall of the U.S. dollar and natural disasters.

He said he would put together a special task force to help deal with the problem and called on the international community to help. He said the U.N. World Food Program plans to raise $750 million per year to help feed 73 million people in 80 countries.

"We need a real world and not the world of economic theories," Ban said. "I will work on this right now with a sense of urgency."

Ban said the Millennium Development Goals—adopted at a U.N. summit in 2000 to cut extreme poverty in half by 2015—were not being met.

"We risk going back to square one, and we need to redouble efforts or betray the promises that we made to our people," Ban said.

In Haiti, food riots this month cost Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis his job and setback international efforts to stabilize the country. Hundreds of Haitians have stood in long times to receive U.N. and regional food aid rushed to the country.

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Note by Paul Sandhu: The cost of food has increased by around 40 percent since mid-2007 worldwide, and the strain has caused riots and protests in countries like Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Haiti and Egypt.

A thinking person would have to ask how the heck do food prices go up by 40% in 9 months? Has there been a 40% reduction in the quantity of food produced in this time or has the world population increased by 40%? Or is this number just a another big fat lie coming out of the big brother liars over the UN intended to create a scarcity mentality that leads to a hoarding mentality that leads to a Mad Max world? Is this what they are planning: to up the cost of food by 40% to fill their already overflowing coffers with mammon while forwarding their evil 'sustainable growth' agendas and eliminating let's say 40% of the world's population at the same time?

I say to heck with their fear mongering; let us not fall into their trap of fear but rather let us celebrate life. Rather than becoming recluses let us become communal and share everything with each other. I will prepare for the times of scarcity that are surely coming but are not here yet but I will not make my own survival at any cost my goal; rather I will help those who will be in need during those days even at the expense of reducing the odds of my own survival.