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UN appeals for help with food crisis
by Bill Bowder
THE United Nations has appealed for NGOs to work with the task force it established last week to co-ordinate plans to overcome the growing world food crisis. Christian Aid and its partners around the world are to gather evidence on the level of food security. The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, announced the establishment of a task force in Berne, Switzerland, on 29 April. The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Sir John Holmes, will co-ordinate the work. The NGOs had a “huge role to play on both the humanitarian and development side”, he said when announcing its aims on Wednesday last week. The task force will have four weeks to draw up plans for short-, medium-, and long-term action to head off world starvation. Its aim is to have proposals ready for the world leaders’ meeting on food security in Rome on 3 and 4 June. Fully funded emergency measures could avert the risk of “widespread hunger, malnutrition and social unrest on an unprecedented scale”, Sir John said last week. “We can fix these problems.” Rice crisis.The rice shortage that has hit the Philippines, the largest rice exporter in the world, was a spiritual crisis as well as a matter of shortage, the Hong Kong-based Roman Catholic priest and human-rights activist Fr Robert Reyes said. Fr Reyes, in a statement to the news agency ENI, said the government of the Philippines was following a “lop-sided policy” by putting the needs of the global market before the needs of its own people. “It is a subtle problem of connectivity between nature and us, between and amongst us Filipinos, between us and our leaders, and between us and God,” he said. The rice shortage sparked May Day protest rallies in south east Asia and Filipinos queuing for government handouts of imported rice. |
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