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Wide of news conference given by United Nations Food and and Agriculture Organisation's Director-General Jacques Diouf2. Mid of news conference3. SOUNDBITE: (French) Jacques Diouf, Director-General UN Food...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eParis, France - 23 April 2008\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of news conference given by United Nations Food and and Agriculture Organisation's Director-General Jacques Diouf\u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid of news conference\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE: (French) Jacques Diouf, Director-General UN Food and Agriculture Organisation:\u003cbr/\u003e\"If we provide this assistance, these resources, to those who need it from now on so they can feed themselves, so they can have access to food at reasonable prices and if at the same time we help the poor farmers of the Third World to have access to more expensive inputs to boost domestic production, naturally we will have less riots and maybe no riots.\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. Cutaway reporters\u003cbr/\u003e5. Reporter taking notes\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide of news conference\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (French) Jacques Diouf, Director-General UN Food and Agriculture Organisation:\u003cbr/\u003e\"In reality it all depends on what we do. We are not in a Greek tragedy where human beings are powerless in front of their fate. No. We have the possibility to affect the future.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Wide of news conference\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE: (French) Jacques Diouf, Director-General UN Food and Agriculture Organisation:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think that as long as we don't get out of this situation which always consists of waiting for a crisis to react to and then starting to look for scapegoats, we won't get out of it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide of news conference\u003cbr/\u003eMahalla el-Kobra, Egypt - 10 April 2008\u003cbr/\u003e11. Various of people gathered in front of Mahalla El-Kobra police station calling for the release of prisoners arrested in the riots and being held back by police\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide of burnt out shop \u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide of car burnt from riots  \u003cbr/\u003e14. Damaged and burnt school \u003cbr/\u003ePort-au-Prince, Haiti - 10 April 2008 \u003cbr/\u003e15. Mid of plumes of black smoke billowing from the burning tyres on the street  \u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide of burning tyres on the street, people riding on motorcycles and bicycles \u003cbr/\u003e17. Wide of protesters marching down the street by tyres set alight\u003cbr/\u003e18. Wide of fire truck hurriedly driving by with siren ringing and then slowing down  19. Close up of fire fighters extinguishing the fire from the burning tyres \u003cbr/\u003e20. Zoom in to protesters running on foot chanting \u003cbr/\u003ePort-au-Prince, Haiti - 12 April 2008\u003cbr/\u003e21. Various of Haitians moving World Food Programme boxes and bags of rice, loading sacks into trucks \u003cbr/\u003e22. Close up of bags printed with label reading (in English): \"Gift of Spain, World Food Programme\" \u003cbr/\u003e23. Wide of rice bags stacked high on pallets \u003cbr/\u003eThe head of the U.N. food agency says aid to poor farmers in the developing world could help prevent riots over food.\u003cbr/\u003eJacques Diouf says the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organisation is not to blame for the recent rise in world prices of corn, rice, wheat and other basic foodstuffs - and insists it is not useful to look for scapegoats.\u003cbr/\u003eDiouf has also called on wealthier nations to make expensive farming resources available to farmers in poor countries. He did not specify what types of resources, during a news conference on Wednesday in Paris.\u003cbr/\u003eDiouf said: \"we are not in a Greek tragedy where human beings are powerless in front of their fate. \" He warned that greater assistance to the Third World was required, to boost domestic food production.\u003cbr/\u003eRising costs, stoked by fuel prices, unpredictable weather and increased demand from India and China, have already sparked violent protests across the Caribbean, Africa and Asia.\u003cbr/\u003eThe price of rice has more than doubled in the last five weeks according to the World Food Program. \u003cbr/\u003eThe World Bank estimates food prices have risen by 83 percent in three years. \u003cbr/\u003eThe first global food crisis since World War 2 threatens 20 (m) million of the poorest children says the World Food Program. \u003cbr/\u003e\"If we provide this assistance, these resources, to those who need it from now on so they can feed themselves, so they can have access to food at reasonable prices and if at the same time we help the poor farmers of the third world to have access to more expensive inputs to boost domestic production, naturally we will have less riots,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003eDiouf maintained the way to get out of this crisis was not looking for scapegoats but to look forward to possible solutions. \u003cbr/\u003eYet while angry street protesters call for immediate action, long term solutions are likely to be slow, costly and complicated, experts warn.\u003cbr/\u003eEgypt's government rushed to contain an explosive situation in the northern industrial city of Mahalla el-Kobra, rocked by two days of deadly riots over high prices and low wages in April.\u003cbr/\u003eWith prices for many staples in Egypt doubling over the past year, the government has also tried to stem complaints over shortages in supplies of subsidised bread, on which the country's poor rely.   \u003cbr/\u003eFights over subsidised bread killed several people. \u003cbr/\u003eAnd unrest provoked by the food crisis has also led to deaths in Cameroon and Haiti, and cost Haitian Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis his job.\u003cbr/\u003eLast month, Port-au-Prince descended deep into chaos as looters and protesters took control of the streets.  \u003cbr/\u003eBands of young men carrying sticks and rocks set up roadblocks of burning tires. \u003cbr/\u003eMobs looted stores, warehouses and government offices and the sound of gunfire rang through slums and upscale neighbourhoods alike.  \u003cbr/\u003eHaiti, the poorest country in the northern hemisphere, has been hit especially hard because it imports nearly all of its food, and most people live on less than two US dollars a day. \u003cbr/\u003eEvolving diets among burgeoning middle classes in India and China will help double the demand for food, particularly grain intensive meat and dairy products, by 2030, the World Bank says.\u003cbr/\u003eRobert Zoellick, the bank's head, claims as many as 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