Agence France-Presse: The head of the Asian Development Bank called on Monday for an “immediate response” to soaring food prices which he said placed more than a billion Asians at risk of malnutrition. ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda also warned that the food problem could cut into decades of economic gains in the Asia-Pacific region. In an inaugural address to the ADB’s board of governors meeting in Madrid, he also announced a special fund to combat climate change and its damaging effects, …