Jacques Diouf, Director General of FAO launched an appeal sull’emergenza World Food and calls for urgent action to seize the opportunities that the increase in prices can offer for reviving agriculture and to avoid situations of this type are in riverifichino future.

“Prices food borne - says Diouf-require a strategy on two fronts:” we must produce more food where it is most urgently contain the impact of rising prices on poor consumers, and at the same time enhance productivity and expand production to create income and increased employment opportunities for rural poor. “” We must ensure - continues - that small farmers have access to land, water and inputs such as seeds and fertilizers, and this will make them able to increase production response to higher prices, to increase their incomes and improve their living conditions, in the end this will also benefit consumers. ”

The issue of food prices will discuss from June 3 to 5 world leaders participating in the High-Level Conference of FAO on ‘World Food Security: the challenges of climate change and bioenergy’. Among the more than 30 Heads of State and Government who have already ‘ensured their participation, there are the French president Nicolas Sarkozy, the Brazilian Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.