The U.N. chief warned Sunday that the world must urgently increase food production to ease skyrocketing prices and pledged to set up a task force on a crisis threatening to destabilize developing nations. . . . 'We must make no mistake, the problem is big. If we offer the right aid, the solutions will come,' Ban said . . . (Associated Press, Monday)
Food producers don't need the right aid or U.N. taskforces–they need free trade.
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Third World Development: Foreign Aid or Free Trade? by John Majewski