World Leaders Agree to Boost Aid for Agriculture

VOA News ^ | November 16, 2009 | Robert Raffaele

[myknowledge]

World leaders at a U.N. summit on food security in Rome are vowing to take "urgent action" to eliminate global hunger. But they did not agree in their final declaration to a U.N. request for $44 billion a year in farm aid.

The World Food Program says for the first time ever, more than one billion people in the world are going hungry. That's more than one out of every six people on Earth.

World hunger and food security are the focus of a three-day U.N. summit that opened Monday in Rome.

[myknowledge]

Would this world loser like UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon be any help to world agriculture? Just another globalist in the globalist club known as the You-Enn.

[Colvin]

Watch the money go to a huge seed producer, rather then teaching local seed production.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

This is just more of the failure of Free Trade Globalism....these nations were on their way to be agri productive...but the Free Trader Globalists decided to concentrate much of the world’s agri production in Communist China.

When Ag prices rose....the poorer countries could not afford the rising food prices....and did not have the money to start growing their own crops.

Just more wealth redistribution by the Free Trader Globalist crowd.....first they redistribute from the poorer nations....now they want to redistribute back to the poorer nations

Mostly with our tax dollars (via UN contributions), of course. Free Traders and the UN, hand in hand, destroying American and international economies

[Chode]

give them anything the want, seeds, tractors, pipe, wells, anydamnthing they want, anything... BUT NO MORE FRIGGIN MONEY!!!

[chainsaw]

This whole food thing is aimed at putting the American farmer out of business. In ten years look for rampant hunger in the US.

None of that 44 billion will be spent in the US.

[SunkenCiv]

vowing to take "urgent action" to eliminate global hunger

No problem, start by rounding up all the ecoterrorists and their supporters and string them up with piano wire, then drill, drill, drill.

[ricks_place]

If Obama gets punked by the tiny emperor of Japan, these global warming world leaders will turn Obama into their hot house biatch!!

[Colvin]

I live near a port city, Portland, and the number of people this will effect is huge. People don't realize how many jobs go into transporting food.
Ships need to be piloted, docked, cleaned, inspected and loaded. There are people who's sole job is to drive around to train yards and gather grain for inspection. My own personal feeling is this is to get the UN to send hybrid seed purchased from Monsanto, as this seems to be the tack they take. Although there is a 10 to 20% production gain because of hybrid vigor, you will lose the gain because you are locked into purchasing seed for 4 times the cost.

[chainsaw]

Although there is a 10 to 20% production gain because of hybrid vigor, you will lose the gain because you are locked into purchasing seed for 4 times the cost.

Back in the 30’s and learly 40’s 60 bu of corn per acre was the norm. Today it is not uncommon to produce over 200 bu of corn per acre. due mainly to hybred seed and better plant nutrition management. That is where the 44 billion is gong overseas to feed the muslim population. Spread the wealth.