摘要:Soaring food prices have
triggered worldwide concern
about threats to global food
security, shaking the unjustified
complacency created by many years
of low commodity prices. From 3 to
5 June 2008, representatives of 180
countries plus the European Union,
including many Heads of State and
Government, met in Rome to express
their conviction “that the
international community needs to
take urgent and coordinated action to
combat the negative impacts of
soaring food prices on the world’s
most vulnerable countries and
populations”. At the G8 Summit in
Japan in July 2008, the leaders of the
world’s most industrialized nations
voiced their deep concern “that the
steep rise in global food prices,
coupled with availability problems in
a number of developing countries, is
threatening global food security”.