UN Food Summit Continues with Pledge of Aid

(04 Jun 08 - RV) World leaders at the second day of the U.N. summit about how rapidly rising food prices are aggravating hunger focused today on more donations for emergency aid and greater efforts to increase food production.

Cristina Amaral, an expert on the soaring food price issue at FAO’s Emergency Operations Service, who has recently visited Burkina Faso and Mozambique. She told us the decisions that need to be made to help the poor of Sub Saharan Africa...