So says a Minneapolis think-tank about the failure of governments to invest in agriculture, a view endorsed in unusually blunt language at the recent world food summit
by BARRY WILSON
In a world of international diplomatic language filled with nuance and weasel words, blunt talk and accusation are as rare as a McGuinty government minister agreeing that the Mike Harris government got at least a few things right.
So it was refreshing and flabbergasting to hear the chief bureaucrat for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) begin a June world food summit in Rome with some very blunt talk about why the world in summer 2008 is facing the spectre of rising food costs, growing hunger and the political instability it creates.