Date:04/06/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/06/04/stories/2008060457970100.htm

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Addressing the food crisis

— PHOTO: AFP

For a hunger-free world: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at a summit on food security at the Food and Agriculture Organisation headquarters in Rome on Tuesday. He called for a huge rise in food production to help check the rising prices that threaten to plunge millions more into poverty.