Food Price Crisis: What does it mean? What can we do about it?

The latest issue of the ‘Contact’ magazine (Issue No: 186), titled Food price crisis: What does it mean? What can we do about it? has been produced in collaboration between the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN). The collaborative effort is intended to facilitate reflexion among the WCC constituencies and its allies, in trying to understand the causes of the ongoing food price crisis and to promote advocacy and action to counter it.

"The need for the food and nutrition policies that are based on human rights values has never been greater. The faith communities can obviously play a strong role in helping realize these changes. It is ethically imperative that civil society, governments and faith based organizations join hands in solidarity with communities to help find solutions at all levels".

Ms Lida Lhotska (Guest editor)
Dr. Roger Shrimpton (Secretary to the United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition)
Dr. Manoj Kurian (Programme Executive- Health & Healing; World Council of Churches)

Read the full issue online
http://www.oikoumene.org/en/programmes/justice-diakonia-and-responsibility-for-creation/health-and-healing/contact-magazine.html