In other news, the World Food Program has begun describing the global food crisis as a silent tsunami that threatens to plunge more than 100 million people on every continent into hunger and poverty. World Food Program Executive Director Josette Sheeran said a large-scale global response is needed to combat what she described as the biggest challenge ever faced by the World Food Program.

Josette Sheeran: “We’re seeing the rising food prices affect virtually every market in the world. The difference is, for the richer countries, there’s more resiliency. We can give up desserts, we can give up meat once or twice a week. For people making less than a dollar a day, there is nowhere to retreat. And so what we are seeing is, in places where people were not desperate before, more people hungry, more people cutting out vital parts of their diet, including some going to one meal a deal. And so, in those cases, we really feel we need a strategy to work with those governments and communities to help people meet this increased need.”