Hope I'm reading this all wrong - word from those who hold the purse-strings - align your interests with those of International Bankers or face starvation from rampant food inflation that we (the mother and father of the nightmare known as derivatives) created in the first place. Is this some sort of sick long-term strategy to counter the Chinese - and trump them - in the global scramble for dwindling energy reserves?

ESL

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13108166?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Robert Zoellick cited rising food prices as the main threat to poor nations who risk "losing a generation".

He was speaking in Washington at the end of the spring meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

Meanwhile, G20 finance chiefs, who also met in Washington, pledged financial support to help new governments in the Middle East and North Africa.

Mr Zoellick said such support was vital.

"Especially because of youth unemployment... there is now a risk that this will be turned into a life sentence, and that there is a possibility of a lost generation," he said.