UN to draw up comprehensive plan to address world food crisis

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.

"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