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Food Crisis Needs Aid on Scale of Tsunami to Avert Famine

Pressure for international action to combat the "silent tsunami" of the global food crisis intensified amid warnings that spiraling prices meant more than 100 million people could be plunged into hunger.

A Downing Street food summit called by Gordon Brown heard calls for the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to bring forward aid payments to countries worst hit as the first step towards a co-ordinated action by the G8 industrialised nations to tackle the worst food crisis for a generation.