Farmers take part in a protest at San Giovanni square in Rome November 16, 2009. Hundreds of farmers gathered in central Rome in a noisy protest to demand actions from government leaders and officials meeting for a FAO world food summit. 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. Reuters Pictures logo Reuters Pictures 27 months ago

Farmers take part in a protest at San Giovanni square in Rome November 16, 2009. Hundreds of farmers gathered in central Rome in a noisy protest to demand actions from government leaders and officials meeting for a FAO world food summit. 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.

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