FIGHTING HUNGER FAO CALLS FOR RENEWED EFFORT

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has observed that if the world hopes to achieve a set of internationally agreed development targets by 2015, it must begin by tackling hunger and extreme poverty, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Addressing a high-level advisory committee in Rome last week, FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf said achieving the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will test the international communitys political will to deal with a number of global problems and unite behind actions required for solving them. The MDGs were endorsed by world leaders at the 2000 summit in New York to achieve, by 2015, a measurable improvement in combating a host of global ills. Mr. Diouf said that fighting hunger and extreme poverty should be at the top of that list.

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