Insurrection of the Famished – Causes and Possible Remedies of the World Hunger Crisis

[1] Olivier de Schutter, Professor of Human Rights at the University of Louvain, Belgium, does not agree with Jean Ziegler on that account. To the question: "Are the international financial institutions responsible [for the increasingly serious problems of world hunger]?" – he answers a resounding "Yes. For twenty years, they have seriously underestimated the necessity to invest in agriculture – the World Bank recognized this at the end of 2007." Schutter was appointed on March 26 to be the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food by the Counsel for Human Rights, based in Geneva, following after Jean Ziegler.