FOOD FOR EVERYONE - David Nabarro, UN Special Representative: interview

Food for everyone - towards a global deal' is the title of the 23 June 2011 conference held at the premises of the European Economic and Social Committee in Brussels. At the conference, farmers representatives from across the world, civil society leaders and policy makers from the European Union and United Nations met at the request of the French G20-G8 presidency in order to draw up a message to G20 farm ministers, due to meet in Paris at the end of June.
That question was key to this debate among the 400 delegates present at this conference in Brussels. Among them, also representatives of farmers from Africa, South America, Asia and North America.

Together with officials from the European Union and the United Naations, the delegates sought to make a recommendation to the G20 farm ministers who will meet at the end of June in paris.

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[CheeezMaster]

google: "UN; food as a weapon"

[2010butchd]

after the meeting they all went for dinner and had 5 courses with top cuts of meat no doubt king prawns a few good wines after a nice cigar and shaking hands how they just thought of a new way to make people pay more for value baked beans

[Loneace1969]

More local gardening...back yard or rented plots,hang food on walls and grow out of biobags, what ever.... if you can you should. Its easy and rewarding in many ways.