Oxfam Protests Ahead of G20 Summit in Mexico

Marisa Krystian | Jun 14, 2012 3:57pm EDT | 1min:18sec

?International non-governmental group Oxfam urged G20 leaders on Thursday (June 14) to come up with a substantial plan to tackle a growing food crisis around the world.

Oxfam members dressed up as G20 leaders and gathered in Mexico City's Revolution Monument to perform a skit where G20 held up balloons with dollar signs and a key to a giant lock labeled "food security."

According to the NGO, nearly 20 million people across Africa are battling a severe food crisis. In other regions of the world drought and financial speculation of the agricultural industry has caused food prices to spike across the world, leaving the world's poorest without basic access to staple goods.

A growing European debt crisis and the rescue of the fragile world economy are expected to dominate talks at the Los Cabos summit.?

With just three days until G20 members meet in Mexico, activists are putting pressure on leaders to not forget food security as it competes with other issues like economic stabilization and a reform of the international financial system.

The two-day summit of the world's twenty biggest economics kicks off in Los Cabos on June 18.

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