WFP Urges Europe To Take Lead In Helping Poor Farmers

A unified plea on behalf of the world’s poorest farmers echoed around the European Parliament’s Development Committee , as leaders of the three Rome-based United Nations agencies - the World Food Programme (WFP), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), as well the World Bank - urged assistance to ease the global crisis caused by high food prices.

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Filed under: Aid / Disasters on September 12th, 2008