Agence France-Presse: UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday called for a sharp hike in world farm output, warning that high food and fuel prices threatened much of the progress made in reaching global poverty-reduction targets. Addressing a day-long debate of the UN General Assembly on the global food and energy crisis, the secretary general warned: “the double jeopardy of high food and fuel prices threatens to undermine much of the progress made in achieving the Millenium Development Goals …