Commonwealth has called for coordinated and timely emergency relief efforts to deal with immediate food crisis. The Declaration adopted at the end of CHOGM at Perth on Saturday said Food Security Principals should have regional and global approach. Calling for preventing food crisis from occurring it said the efforts should aim at mitigating their impacts and building resilience.

Reaffirming everyone's right to have access to safe, sufficient and nutritious food, the declaration urges the members to improve market access for food producers, including small holders and women through trade liberalisation by removing tariff and non-tarrif barriers.

The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting underlined the need for enhancing research and development to build a sustainable agriculture sector. It also lent support to the food programmes being run by members governments and international bodies like the UN. AIR correspondent reports that half of the world's one billion hungry lives in the Commonwealth nations.