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US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned Friday that global shortages of food and spiraling prices threaten widespread destabilization on the Globe.
She is urging immediate action to forestall (komme i forkøbet) a repeat of the 2007 and 2008 crisis that led to riots in dozens of countries around the developing world.
Clinton told a meeting of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome that urgent steps are needed to hold down costs and boost agricultural production as food prices continue to rise.
She called the endeavour (bestræbelserne) for food security “The Cause of Our Time”.
More than a billion people suffer from hunger around the world. An estimate from the World Bank cited by Clinton said that high food prices had already pushed 44 million people into poverty in the past 12 months.
Clinton and President Barack Obama have funneled administration resources into food security, which the US sees as integral to stabilizing developing countries.
The Feed the Future program that the US State Department and the US Agency for International Development (USAID = Amerikas Danida) oversee aims to “strengthen the entire agricultural (production) chain”, Clinton said.
That includes creating better seeds, connecting farmers to local and larger markets, and encouraging crop diversity and better nutrition, Clinton noted.
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