Leaders caricatured by activists said goodbye to the summit. Picture: APÂ

Annual summit of the powerful: polemic for luxuries at the end of the meeting.

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Toyako (Japan). The annual summit of the most powerful countries in the planet (G8) finished yesterday with words like “success” or “advances” in their leaders’ mouth, although the distant positions that they brought in many topics didn’t allow substantial agreements. Leer más »

The rise of the prices of petroleum and foods entered the world agenda.Â

The leaders of different countries began to refer to the possible causes of the problem, that can derive in the global industrial capacity loss, the increase of the poverty and the famines in important regions of the world. Leer más »

The leaders of the eight main powers of the world, that will meet from tomorrow in Japan, will look for ways to cool the record prices of the petroleum and the foods; there is a massive security operative.Â

AFP. – The leaders of the eight main powers of the world, that will meet from tomorrow in Japan, will look for ways to cool the record prices of the petroleum and the foods. The other point that stands out of the summit will be the fight against the climatic heating. Leer más »

As it was indicated today by the Director-General of the FAO, Jacques Diouf, during the opening of the Summit about the Alimentary Security that is being carried out in Rome.Â

He noticed that the world peace is in risk. The Director-General Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Jacques Diouf, requested today to the leaders of the central nations an annual sum of 30.000 M/u$s to achieve the full alimentary security in the world and pointed out that in the richest countries in 2006 food was wasted by value of 100.000 M/u$s and that the excessive consumption on part of the obese represented in that year a sum of the order of 20.000 M/u$s. Leer más »

BERLIN. – The Special Rapporteur of the United Nations, Jean Ziegler, said yesterday that the biofuels use has become a “crime against the humanity” in view of the problems that the world has at the moment with the price of the foods.

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