Food
High-Level Task Force
- The Secretary-General’s High-Level Task Force on the Global Food Security Crisis
- The Comprehensive Framework for Action (High-Level Task Force, July 2008)
Task Force Participants
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), “The World Food Situation”
- International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), “Soaring Food Prices and the Rural Poor”
- International Monetary Fund (IMF), “IMF Work with Vulnerable States on Food Price Policies”
- UN Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked
Developing Countries and the Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS) - UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), “Addressing the Global Food Crisis”
- UN Development Programme (UNDP). Also individual news stories, such as “Food security in Colombia; US$1 million donated”.
- UN Environment Programme (UNEP),
“World Food Security: The Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy” - Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
- UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), “On Food Price Increases”
- World Bank Group, “Food Crisis: What the World Bank is Doing”
- World Food Programme (WFP), “What high food prices mean for WFP”
- World Health Organization (WHO), “Health impacts of the global food security crisis”
- World Trade Organization (WTO), “The global food crisis: What is the role of trade?”
- UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
- UN Department of Political Affairs (DPA)
- UN Department of Public Information (DPI) - UN News Centre
- UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO)
Resources
- UN System Response to the World Food Security Crisis (as of September 2008)
- UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
- “The Right to Food” (FAO)
- DESA News: Food Crisis: Scarcity Amid Plenty
- UNCTAD report, “Addressing the Global Food Crisis”