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UN to draw up comprehensive plan to address world food crisis

source: United Nations New Centre | May 04, 08 | submitted by Pat Coate

United Nations - The United Nations is aiming to have a comprehensive plan to tackle the global food crisis in place by the beginning of June, "around which the institutions and leaders around the world can coalesce," Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes said today.

The UN's action plan is to be in place in time for a meeting of UN agencies in Rome at the beginning of June.


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"We need to look at it in a careful, sophisticated and differentiated way, between different regions of the world and between different products."
- John Holmes, UN official

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