Several ministers said the rise in food prices was related to increased production of biofuels.
"In a world where there is hunger and poverty, there is no justification for diverting food crops to biofuels,'' Indian Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said.
Saudi Arabian Finance Minister Ibrahim Al-Assaf, without directly naming the U.S. government's support for the corn-based ethanol industry, called on countries to "withdraw subsidies for the production of commercially unviable biofuels.''
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