Okonjo-Iweala names food security as priority WTO issue as recession looms

With indicators pointing toward a global recession, World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Tuesday said her top short-term priority for the WTO was addressing food insecurity and finding a way to provide for world’s poorest populations. “I am really worried about issues of food insecurity for the world, particularly when you think about poor people in rich countries and poor people in poor countries or poor countries in general,” she said in an interview with Richard Quest during the...