The Food Summit in Rome turned out better than expected. It was not derailed by Robert Mugabe. It survived the unedifying wrangling over a final communiqué. It gave the topic a good hearing. It confirmed some practical actions. And it passed the torch successfully to the G8 in Japan in July....(read more)...
The word "crisis" is much abused. But the current food price crisis constitutes a genuine emergency. Urgency in tackling it is essential....(read more)...
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Last week, I attended the World Economic Forum
in Davos. This is the second of five blogs with my reflections and
predictions on how the debates will be taken forward in 2008. (see my first blog - 'Global corporate citizenship in 2008')Substantively, my enduring memory is of the profile given to hunger and malnutrition, with Robert Zoellick (WB) and Josette Sheeran (WFP) both mounting major public initiatives on the ‘forgotten MDG’.
Elsewhere in these Davos blogs I consider the power of story....(read...