UN World Food Day

(16 Oct 08 - RV) Earlier today, Pope Benedict sent a message to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation to mark UN World Food Day. In it he said, an essential condition to increase food production levels, was to give agricultural workers access to land and to promote their rights. Amy Barry is a spokesperson for the aid agency Oxfam. She told us that there are underlying problems in trade and agriculture that have contributed to the global food crisis.