Jun 17 2011
"French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged G20 agriculture ministers to agree at talks in Paris next week on a farm database that would gather and store market-sensitive information such as food stocks," Reuters reports. Sarkozy's call came during a speech Thursday "to farm unions gathered at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development headquarters," the news service writes (6/16).
"Speculation, panic and lack of transparency have seen prices soaring," Sarkozy said earlier this week at an international conference on commodities and raw materials, the Associated Press reports. "Is that the world we want? France is saying quite clearly it is not."
"Even if we all pull out all the stops, we may not be able to achieve what we have to achieve to feed 9 billion people in 2050," Sarkozy said (Casert, 6/15).
 This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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