Join us at 1800 UTC, to talk with James Wolfensohn, former President of the World Bank. Mr.
Bill Guyton, President of the World Cocoa Foundation, talks with a farmer in the village of Monga in eastern Ivory coast
Wolfensohn founded a private investment firm (Wolfensohn & Company) and advisory that provides strategic consulting advice to governments and large corporations doing business in emerging market economies.
Mr. Wolfensohn has served as U.S. special envoy for Gaza disengagement for the Quartet on the Middle East, and has founded the Wolfensohn Center for Development at the Brookings Institution policy analysis center in Washington, D.C.
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07 May, 1800 UTC: A Silent Tsunami: World Food Crisis
Hundreds of people, angry over rising cost of food, block a key road connecting Jalalabad to Kabul, demand action from the government to bring down prices
Jennifer Parmelee
People wait as WFP staff unload food aid for residents of Kibera slum, at Woodley stadium in Nairobi, Kenya, 15 Jan 2008
We were talking to Jennifer Parmelee, a Washington Spokesperson for the World Food Program about the global food crisis. The U.N. World Food Program says high food prices are creating the agency’s biggest challenge in its 45-year history.
WFP calls the crisis a silent tsunami that threatens to plunge more than 100 million people on every continent into hunger.
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