A high-level advisory committee set up to help FAO respond more effectively to the challenge of meeting the MDGs by 2015 met at FAO Headquarters, in Rome, on 7-8 September 2006. Chairperson Prof. Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, regretted that little progress has been made to reduce chronic malnutrition and extreme poverty in the world.(FAO Photo: Dr. Swaminathan)