因應全球日益高漲的糧食危機，聯合國將推動一項全方位的計畫，希望能在今(2008)年6月之前控制住糧荒情勢。一位聯合國高層官員在4月30日的記者會中表示：「以這個計畫為中心，可以結合全球許多機構及各界領袖」。
聯合國人道事務署副秘書長（UN Under- Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs）赫姆斯（John Holmes）表示，糧荒問題的範疇及複雜性都必須再確認，目前還不需要恐慌。他指出：「我認為很清楚地我們能夠解決這些問題，可以找到解決的方法，方法也是現成的，這些方法中有些在短期內是非常艱難的，但仍然是可以達成的」。
目前，聯合國已成立一個獲高度授權的特別小組，並在29日由聯合國秘書長潘基文公告任命。該小組負責協調組織相關工作，以因應全球糧食價格上升危機。赫姆斯與聯合國系統防治流感協調員（UN System Influenza Coordinator）納巴羅（David Nabarro），則共同擔任該小組的協調員。
這個特別小組是在聯合國行政主管理事會（UN Chief Executive Board，簡稱CEB）ㄧ場兩天的會議中誕生的，這個理事會位於瑞士首都伯恩（Bern），以秘書長為主席，成員由聯合國轄下27個機構、基金與專案計畫的主管所組成。
糧荒危機特別小組則由秘書長擔任主席，目前成員包括世界銀行、國際貨幣基金（IMF）、世界糧食計畫署、聯合國糧農組織、國際農業發展基金（International Fund for Agricultural Development）、以及世界貿易組織的主管，日後還將邀請其他機構的主管加入。
聯合國CEB正號召國際社群緊急提供7億5500萬美元，作為聯合國用來餵養全世界幾百萬饑餓民眾的緊急經費，而這只是未來一系列方案的第一步而已。
潘基文29日在伯恩的記者會上表示：「我們看到了饑荒擴大和營養不良者新增的證據，這些現象已經嚴重地耗損人道部門面對人道需求的能力，特別是當已允諾提供的經費至今還沒出現」。他警告說：「沒有這些緊急事件所需的足夠經費，我們將會再度面對前所未見大規模饑荒、營養不良及社會不安等可怕的危機」。
The United Nations aims to have a comprehensive plan to tackle the global food crisis in place by the beginning of June, "around which the institutions and leaders around the world can coalesce," a top UN official said at a news conference here today.
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes said that although the breadth and complexity of the issue must be recognized, there is no need to panic.
"I think it is clear we can fix these problems. The solutions can be found; the solutions are there," he said. "They are very difficult, some of them, in the short term, but they can be done."
Holmes is one of two coordinators, along with UN System Influenza Coordinator David Nabarro, of a new high-powered task force that was announced yesterday by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to organize responses to the global rise in food prices.
The formation of this task force resulted from a two-day meeting of the UN Chief Executive Board, consisting of 27 heads of UN agencies, funds and programs chaired by the secretary-general in the Swiss city of Bern.
The task force is chaired by the secretary-general and consists of the heads of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Food Programme, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the World Trade Organization, and other organizations which will be invited to join.
The UN Chief Executive Board called on the international community to urgently provide $755 million in emergency funds needed for the UN to feed millions of hungry people worldwide, as the first of a series of concrete measures to be taken.
"We see mounting hunger and increasing evidence of malnutrition which has severely strained the capacities of humanitarian agencies to meet humanitarian needs, especially as promised funding has not yet materialized," Ban told a news conference in Bern on Tuesday.
He warned that "without full funding of these emergency requirements, we risk again the spectre of widespread hunger, malnutrition and social unrest on an unprecedented scale."
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