Samdech PM Appeals Aligning Oil Price to Food Price
Samdech Prime Minister Hun Sen appealed to the world to harmonize energy prices to food prices as food production shouldn’t outstrip the consumption of volatile fuels while food price remains stable, at the 4th workshop on food security and nutrition. Calling it “The Phnom Penh Initiative,” Prime Minister Hun Sen requested that the issue be brought to the world leaders for immediate solutions, in an aim to prevent the world from clashing between oil producers and food producers, while the global downturn still prevails. The governments of the region and the world have considered much on food security as well as fuel security, but no effective solution to integrate these two security policies has emerged yet, as the rising fuel price is sure to affect the food price…
