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Food crisis needs farmer input, forum says.(WORLD)
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National Catholic Reporter
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June 27, 2008
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- Zaccaro, Sabina
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While record-high food prices, global trade policy and the impact of biofuels on the global agricultural industry dominated an international summit called earlier this month by the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization, a parallel meeting of small-scale farmers and anti-hunger activists warned that finding solutions to the world food crisis cannot be left to governments alone.
"While 80 percent of the world's food comes from their work, farmers are not represented enough at the official meeting," said Antonio Onorati, whose group, the International Planning Committee, organized the alternative forum, Terra Preta (Portuguese for "black soil"), held June 1-4 in Rome.
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