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Amidst threat of global recession, food security at stake
?The global financial crisis should not make us forget the food crisis. Agriculture needs urgent and sustained attention too to make hunger and rural poverty part of history,? said Jacques Diouf, in a message read on his behalf by FAO Deputy Director-General Jim Butler, at the 34th Session of FAO's Committee on World Food Security (CFS) from October 14-17 08, in Rome.

FAO Deputy Director-General, Jim Butler, opening the 34th Session of FAO's Committee on World Food Securrity (CFS, October 14-17 2008), on behalf of the Director-General of FAO, Jacques Diouf.(Photo©FAO/Giulio Napolitano)
5min. 27sec.
Topic(s): Director-General, Food Security, World Food Day
Produced by: FAO
 
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