Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega on Wednesday urged Central American and Caribbean countries to take effective measures to confront the ongoing food crisis.
"The lack of access to food negatively impacts the goal of reducing childhood mortality, and millennium goals such as eradicating extreme poverty, which only gets worse as food prices increase," said Ortega in a regional food summit held here.
The "Food Sovereignty and Security" summit was aimed at finding an effective strategy to weather the crisis triggered by food shortage and price hikes, said Ortega, who blamed the production of grain-based bio-fuels for reducing the availability of grain to feed people worldwide.
Presidents or senior government officials from Central American and Caribbean countries, and representatives from the United Nations, the World Bank, the World Food Organization and the Inter-American Development Bank attended the one-day summit.
Source:Xinhua
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