Olivier De Schutter, the U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food, outlines five priorities for G20 leaders to endorse at the upcoming summit in a Guardian “Poverty Matters Blog” post.

“Regulate the markets for agricultural products and make them more transparent … Encourage the development of regional storage facilities … Support the provision of public goods … Support the capacity of all countries to feed themselves by strategies based on the right to food … Strengthen global food security governance,” he writes. De Schutter concludes, “Hunger is not a natural disaster – it’s a political problem. And that is precisely why this scandal can and must be stopped. Today France, with its G20 partners, has a unique opportunity to contribute decisively to this end, and I am confident it will do so” (6/16).