Anti-globalisation activists will be pushing for a new global food programme at an upcoming UN Food and Agriculture Organisation summit, according to a spokesman for the World Social Forum, Vittorio Agnoletto.
The summit is due to be held in Rome June 10-13.
Agnoletto said activists found it unacceptable that the summit was expected to hear that it will now take 60 years to make sure most people in the world live above the poverty line, instead of the 20 years agreed at the last FAO summit in 1996.
He said the would also call on the FAO to ensure agriculture "is managed outside the logic of the multinationals,'' and ask the FAO to launch a campaign for water which he said a billion people around the world did not have access to.
Agnoletto said he wanted to see responsibility for food trade matters to be taken from the World Trade Organisation and given to the FAO.