UN official holds rich nations accountable for food shortages

Resolving the global food crisis could cost as much as $30 billion a year, and wealthier nations are doing little to help developing nations face the problem, United Nations officials said here on Tuesday. (Snip) Jacques Diouf, director general of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, convened a three-day summit meeting attended by dozens of world leaders.

He sharply criticized wealthy nations who he said were cutting spending on agriculture programs for the world's poor while spending billions on carbon markets...

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