Heads of State worldwide have resolved to increase investment in agriculture, to address obstacles to food access and to use the planets resources sustainably for present and future generations.
The high level three-day conference which ended on Thursday resolved to use all means possible to alleviate the suffering caused by the current crisis to stimulate food production.
The conference was held in Rome, Italy and attended by 50 Heads of State, including the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Director-General Jacques Diouf.
A draft Declaration of the Food World Security challenges for climate change and bioenergy was also adopted.
Further the summit looked on how programmes for wheat, maize, soya and milk and livestock production could be intensified.
The outcomes include an action plan that outlines the immediate actions as well as the medium to long-term plan and a further commitment to the elimination of hunger and to secure food for all today and tomorrow.
The summit also discussed the roles of biofuels, trade practices and impact of global warming on food prices, which are threatening hunger, poverty and conflict worldwide.
It also discussed how countries can devise sustainable solutions to the food crisis by identifying the policies, strategies and programmes required to safeguard world food security in the immediate, short and longer term.
According to the UN food output had to rise 50 percent by 2030 to meet the ballooning demand.
With food prices at a 30-year high, the UN warns that the governments need to respond immediately and advises that they must also put the long-term focus on improving food security.
Prices have doubled in three years, according to the World Bank, sparking riots in Egypt and Haiti and in many African nations. Brazil, Vietnam, India and Egypt have all imposed food export restrictions.
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