UN meet in Rome on easing global food prices
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A man holds corn harvested from the fields of Terrabona town, north Nicaragua Oct 11, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
ROME (AFP) - The international community is gathering in Italy for World Food Day on Tuesday with a round of UN-hosted talks on how to keep global food prices in check and help prevent future commodity market crises.
"Food prices are too volatile and are dangerously high," Olivier De Schutter, the UN's rapporteur on the right to food, said ahead of the meeting.
Mr De Schutter called for "immediate" action to help stabilise prices.
The Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations is holding a week-long meeting of the Committee on World Food Security, which is made up of UN officials, farming experts and civil society representatives.
