Stop the World Food Crisis
967 million people are now hungry worldwide. High food prices are hitting the world's poorest people hard. Use your voice here to help limit the human cost of the World Food Crisis.
World leaders must act now
For poor people, who typically spend 50-80 per cent of their income on food, high prices are spelling disaster.
We've already seen food riots in Mexico, Egypt, Tanzania and Senegal - and they're not alone.
Oxfam has joined Avaaz and GCAP in calling for world leaders to take emergency action, and make longer-term reforms, to end this crisis.
Add your name by signing the petition, and join the call for governments to prevent the world's most vulnerable people from further suffering.
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Oxfam has joined Avaaz and the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) to call for world leaders to stop the food crisis.
