Poor states fight back against food subsidies
The walkout last year from the World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks by 17 Third World countries in Cancun, Mexico, was unprecedented.
It kicked the WTO talks dramatically into touch and for the first time it showed that poorer countries suffering at the hand of global subsidies in the developed world were starting to fight back. More recently, Bob Geldof and his influential international band of statesmen set up another forum in an effort to rekindle the kind of goodwill Live Aid sparked in the 1980s.
