Jacques Diouf, FAO Director-General awarding the World Food Day Year 2009 medals to the four first prize winners of the World Food Day poster competition organized by the United Nations Women's Guild, World Food Day Ceremony, FAO headquarters (Plenary Hall)

16 October 09, Rome - In his annual address to mark World Food Day, Diouf also urged leaders to agree to increase agriculture’s share of official development assistance to 17 percent, the level it was in 1980, from the current five percent.

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