Developing world leaders urge action on food crisis

Developing world leaders urge action on food crisis. Developing world leaders said on Tuesday that escalating food costs were exacting a heavy toll on the poor and called for global action to reverse the trend, which threatens to undermine economic growth.

The impact of higher global food prices was raised by leaders in speeches to the annual U.N. General Assembly gathering, where delegates are assessing how countries are faring in reaching U.N. goals to halve global poverty by 2015.