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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Larry Elliott Economics editor

Poorer countries need urgent food help to stop disorder, say global bodies

Sri Lankan riot police
Sri Lankan riot police guarding the parliament complex in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 5 April. The country is in the grip of severe shortages of food, fuel, medicine and imported goods. Photograph: Chamila Karunarathne/EPA

Rich countries need to provide emergency food supplies to prevent rising prices and shortages triggering social unrest in poorer parts of the world, the heads of four major international bodies have said.

Calling for urgent and coordinated action, the World Bank, the UN World Food Programme, the World Trade Organization and the International Monetary Fund warned that the food crisis was pushing millions of people into poverty.

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