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Tema destacado del Miércoles, 4. Junio 2008

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The World Food Security Summit in Rome

The global food crisis has faced the Food and Agriculture Organisation with major challenges. The World Food Security Summit in Rome is intended to offer a framework for finding solutions. But Europe's press has harsh words for the summit - and for the FAO.

ABC - España

Commenting on the meeting of the Food and Agriculture Organisation in Rome, the Spanish daily writes: "To the detriment of those who want to help, the participants have once again demonstrated that the politicisation of a problem - even with the best intentions - is a sure way to make it worse. It was truly scandalous to have to hear how [Zimbabwean President] Robert Mugabe has exploited the situation to blame the West for the hunger he has brought on his own people. ... On the other hand there was not the slightest sign of self-criticism on the part of the host organisation, ... which was incapable of foreseeing the current situation and identifying the causes" (04/06/2008)

La Repubblica - Italia

The newspaper dedicates a leading article to the FAO summit. "When a business, an institution or a government fails to achieve its goals, normally those in positions of responsibility are changed, managers are dismissed or fresh elections are held. In 1996 the FAO set itself the goal of lowering the number of people suffering from hunger, which then stood at 800 million. Today, in 2008, it stands at 850 million, and the food crisis is threatening to raise that figure by an additional 100 million soon. ... FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf's dialogue partners are manufacturers of genetically modified foodstuffs, seed traders and junk food producers. ... And yet the only viable solution is decentralised, democratic and cooperative biological and ecological agriculture. The real problem is industrialised agriculture and the evils it causes, like soil contamination. ... But in Rome such things will not even be mentioned." (04/06/2008)

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - Alemania

The German daily comments on the Food and Agriculture Organisation's lack of a coordinated strategy: "Jacques Diouf, Director-General of the FAO, has begun to reduce the message of 'his' food summit to the standard rhetoric: he warns of the growing threat hunger poses for the world and calls for more money for developing countries. However this message lacks not only a constructive perspective but also plausibility. ... As a result, the excellent expertise of FAO experts stands in contrast to the failure of its political leadership. ... No wonder the FAO has failed to heighten its profile even though the organisation possesses the ability to see the big picture. ... The best contribution Jacques Diouf could therefore make to providing food for the world would be for him to make way so the FAO can make a fresh start." (04/06/2008)

The Guardian - Gran Bretaña

The Guardian argues against biofuels: "Only the wildly optimistic would expect the UN's food conference to stop rich countries throwing subsidies at their farmers. A three-day meeting ... has no chance against the EU's decades-old common agricultural policy. ... There is, however, one measure ministers might take that could have a real and rapid impact: call a go-slow on biofuels. ... It is dawning on the EU and Britain that crop fuels make the food crisis worse. They should use this summit to press the case for stopping biofuel production where there is any evidence that it is interfering with food supplies." (04/06/2008)

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