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潘基文：糧價飆漲恐傷害全球安全
法新社╱毛盈超 2008-04-21 07:35
（法新社迦納阿克拉二十日路透電）聯合國秘書長潘基文今天表示，全球糧食價格飆漲恐會導致世界對抗貧窮努力倒退，如果未妥善處理，可能會危害到全球成長與安全。
潘基文在迦納首都阿克拉召開的聯合國貿易及發展會議開幕致詞時，作以上表示。他說：「我們面臨倒退回原本狀態的危險。」
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080420/wl_afp/ghanaafricaunbrazilagriculturedevelopment_080420195141;_ylt=Avc498C0GenVwqe0DDGzBmeQOrgF
Food tops agenda at UN trade conference in Ghana
by Helen Vesperini
Sun Apr 20, 3:51 PM ET
ACCRA (AFP) - A warning from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the possible consequences of the rise in global food prices, together with the plight of the world's poorest nations, dominated the start of a major UN trade conference Sunday in Ghana's capital.
"If not handled properly, this (food) crisis could trigger a cascade of others and develop into a multiple crisis, becoming a multi-dimensional problem affecting economic growth, social progress and even political security around the world," Ban warned delegates.
The most high-profile visiting head of state, Brazilian President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva, warned the 12th session of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) that poor nations should not be made to pay for the credit crunch that the world's richest economies have brought upon themselves.
"The international economy is experiencing a crisis caused by problems regarding good financial governance in the world's richest economies. The poor countries should not have to pay for the cost of adjustment," he said in his opening speech.
"Globalization cannot become a way of transferring losses to the developing countries. Indeed, they are precisely the ones that have most contributed to maintaining the world's economic growth levels."
Ban stressed the plight of the world's 50 poorest nations, whose population he referred to as the "bottom billion".
"The rising economic tide has not lifted all boats. The poor in 142 of the world's nations are being pulled into the growing global economy. But those of the other 50, the poorest of the world's poor, are not. The global boom has passed them by," he said.
"We cannot leave the bottom billion to flounder; we cannot neglect their real and pressing needs."
Brazil's Lula similarly emphasised the need to find a sustainable solution to the hike in global food prices.
"The food price hikes should not result in strategies for the poorest and the most needy. We must develop mechanisms to ensure that the most needy do not lack food. UNCTAD is in a position to develop such mechanisms together with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund," he said.
Lula spent Sunday morning in the company of his host, Ghanaian President John Kufuor, inaugurating the Accra headquarters of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), which studies how to improve the production of staple crops such as cassava, rice, beans and soya beans.
He said EMBRAPA represented "the spearhead of our conviction to extend to developing countries, and more specifically to African countries, the benefits that EMBRAPA has brought and will continue to bring to Brazil".
In his UNCTAD address, Lula renewed a call he made earlier in the day for the richest nations to stop subsidising their farmers and to open market access to agricultural products from the developing world.
"The massive subsidies paid by the treasuries of the developed countries works like a drug that dopes and turns their own producers into addicts but the main victims are the farmers of the poorest nations," he told delegates.
In recent weeks the soaring price of essential foodstuffs such as rice, wheat and corn in some of the world's poorest nations have caused riots in Haiti and demonstrations across Africa.
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