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November 19, 2009

Farmers Not Invited to Food Summit?

by Sabina Zaccoro, IPS, Italy - World farmers are not part of the official delegations at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) food summit on food security that opened here Monday. But they came anyhow to express their views, since, they say, it is their communities that are most impacted by the food crisis.

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