Food crisis
posted on January 1, 2009 in News | 
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EAA – “The current food crisis is an appalling indictment of our broken food system,” stated Sam Kobia, general secretary of the World Council of Churches in opening a conference on Confronting the Global Food Challenge. With over one billion people in the world now facing constant hunger, Kobia said that such growing tragedies are “a result of the ways our societies have chosen to produce, share, buy and sell food.”
About 120 civil society representatives gathered at a conference convened in November by the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance to explore the impact of trade and investment on the right to food, and to explore new trade approaches that put human rights at the core.
“Churches and their related-organizations around the world have been tireless advocates on food, hunger and agriculture,” said Simon Vilakazi, Economic Justice Network of FOCCISA.
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