Chinese envoy calls for efforts to address root causes of food insecurity
A Chinese envoy on Thursday called on the international community to address the root causes of food insecurity. "In order to resolve the food crisis, the international community must focus on the root causes and conduct a systematic review of the situation," said Zhang Jun, China's permanent representative to the United Nations (UN). The most severely affected victims of the food crisis are, without exception, developing countries, he noted. "Food insecurity is essentially the result of insufficient and unbalanced development worldwide, and a concrete manifestation of the development gap between the North and the South," he told a UN Security...
