The call by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for a top-level task force to address the issue of the spiraling cost of food worldwide is precisely the kind of co-ordinated global action that is necessary at this precarious moment in history, and could not have come at a better time. The secretary general's other suggestions, that the World Food Programme needs to be fully funded, that key producer nations should not ban exports, and that bio-fuels need to be reconsidered in light of the current crisis, are also all well taken.
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[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/biofuel
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/bangladesh
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/world-food-programme-wfp