Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Josette Sheeran, left, delivers her address as Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) general director Jacques Diouf listens, at the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) headquarters Rome, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009, during the presentation of the State of Food Insecurity report for 2009. Even before the economic crisis pushed the ranks of the world's hungry to a record 1 billion, declining aid and investment in agriculture had been steadily increasing the number of undernourished people for more than a decade, FAO said Wednesday. Unless these trends are reversed, ambitious goals set by the international community to slash the number of hungry people by 2015 will not be met, the Organization warned in a report. AP Photo logo AP Photo 3 months ago

Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Josette Sheeran, left, delivers her address as Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) general director Jacques Diouf listens, at the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) headquarters Rome, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009, during the presentation of the State of Food Insecurity report for 2009. Even before the economic crisis pushed the ranks of the world's hungry to a record 1 billion, declining aid and investment in agriculture had been steadily increasing the number of undernourished people for more than a decade, FAO said Wednesday. Unless these trends are reversed, ambitious goals set by the international community to slash the number of hungry people by 2015 will not be met, the Organization warned in a report.

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  2. ROME - NOVEMBER 16: Director General of the FAO Jacques Diouf (L), Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon (C) and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (R), during the opening of the World Summit for Food Security 2009 organised by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on November 16, 2009 in Rome, Italy. The summit runs from November 16 until November 18 and will see the participation of more than 60 heads of state and government.
  3. Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak speaks with Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (C) near U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Director-General Jacques Diouf (R) at the FAO food security summit in Rome November 16, 2009. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi called for an end to the purchase of African farmland by food-importing nations at a U.N. hunger summit on Monday, describing it as "new feudalism" which could spread to Latin America as well.
  4. In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI, left in white, shakes hands with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, at the opening ceremony of the World Summit on Food Security, at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) headquarters, in Rome, Monday, Nov. 16, 2009. At right, Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi; in background at center with hat, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General Jacques Diouf. Others are unidentified.
  5. Pope Benedict XVI arrives with U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Director-General Jacques Diouf (R) to the FAO food security summit in Rome November 16, 2009. The United Nations opened its world food summit on Monday by saying that a climate change deal in Copenhagen next month is crucial to fighting global hunger as rising temperatures threaten farm output in poor countries. Government leaders and officials met in Rome for a three-day U.N. summit on how to help developing countries to feed themselves, but anti-poverty campaigners were already writing off the event as a missed opportunity.
  6. Pope Benedict XVI listens to an introduction by U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Director-General Jacques Diouf (R) during the FAO food security summit in Rome November 16, 2009. The United Nations opened its world food summit on Monday by saying that a climate change deal in Copenhagen next month is crucial to fighting global hunger as rising temperatures threaten farm output in poor countries. Government leaders and officials met in Rome for a three-day U.N. summit on how to help developing countries to feed themselves, but anti-poverty campaigners were already writing off the event as a missed opportunity.
  7. Pope Benedict XVI passes U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Director-General Jacques Diouf (L) on arrival at a Food Security Summit in Rome November 16, 2009. The United Nations opened its world food summit on Monday by saying that a climate change deal in Copenhagen next month is crucial to fighting global hunger as rising temperatures threaten farm output in poor countries. Government leaders and officials met in Rome for a three-day U.N. summit on how to help developing countries to feed themselves, but anti-poverty campaigners were already writing off the event as a missed opportunity.
  8. Pope Benedict XVI listens to an introduction by U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Director-General Jacques Diouf (R) during a Food Security Summit in Rome November 16, 2009. The United Nations opened its world food summit on Monday by saying that a climate change deal in Copenhagen next month is crucial to fighting global hunger as rising temperatures threaten farm output in poor countries. Government leaders and officials met in Rome for a three-day U.N. summit on how to help developing countries to feed themselves, but anti-poverty campaigners were already writing off the event as a missed opportunity.
  9. U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation Director-General Jacques Diouf attends the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) food security summit in Rome November 16, 2009. Government leaders and officials meet in Rome on Monday for a three-day U.N. summit on how to fight global hunger, but anti-poverty campaigners are already writing off the event as a missed opportunity. With the world's hungry topping one billion for the first time in history, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation had called the summit, hoping that leaders would commit to raising the share of official aid spent on agriculture to 17 percent of the total -- its 1980 level -- from 5 percent now. That would amount to $44 billion a year, up from $7.9 billion now.
  10. Pope Benedict XVI, center, arrives at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization FAO headquarters welcomed by FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf, right, to take part in a World Summit on Food Security, in Rome, Monday, Nov. 16, 2009. At left is Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.
  11. Pope Benedict XVI (L) walks together with head of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Jacques Diouf upon arrival for a World Summit on Food Security organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on November 16, 2009 at its headquarters in Rome. The summit is bringing together more than 60 heads of states and government.
  12. Pope Benedict XVI (L) walks together with head of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Jacques Diouf upon arrival for a World Summit on Food Security organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on November 16, 2009 at its headquarters in Rome. The summit is bringing together more than 60 heads of states and government.
  13. Pope Benedict XVI (C) walks together with head of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Jacques Diouf (R) as Vatican Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone (L) watches upon arrival for a World Summit on Food Security organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on November 16, 2009 at its headquarters in Rome. The summit is bringing together more than 60 heads of states and government.
  14. Pope Benedict XVI (L) walks together with head of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Jacques Diouf as he arrives for a World Summit on Food Security organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on November 16, 2009 at its headquarters in Rome. The summit is bringing together more than 60 heads of states and government.
  15. (From L) United Nations (UN) chief Ban Ki-Moon, Italian Senate President Renato Schifani and head of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Jacques Diouf for the inaugural ceremony of a World Summit on Food Security organized by the FAO on November 16, 2009 at its headquarters in Rome. The summit is bringing together more than 60 heads of states and government.
  16. Head of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Jacques Diouf takes place for the inaugural ceremony of a World Summit on Food Security organized by the FAO on November 16, 2009 at its headquarters in Rome. The summit is bringing together more than 60 heads of states and government.

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