Global Food Crisis Summit: European leaders to offer pieties but resist any change in protections from an era of food mountains and wine lakes

May 29th, 2008 | By Finfacts Ireland Business & Finance Portal | Category: News worldwide
Global Food Crisis Summit: The conference next week in Rome (3-5 June) on world food security, offers a historic chance to re-launch the fight against hunger and poverty and boost agricultural production in developing countries, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Wednesday. President Nicolas Sarkozy of France will be among the European leaders who will be in attendance but despite the global boom in agriculture, all Europe will offer are pieties and some euros for the begging bowl of the developing countries. European politicians dancing to the tune of the powerful farm lobby, will not concede changes in the existing protections from an era of food mountains and wine lakes.

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