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Jacques Diouf

Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

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Statement by Jacques Diouf at the World Summit on Food Security

by Jacques Diouf

Rome (Italy) | 16 November 2009

Your Excellency the President of the Senate of the Italian Republic, Your Majesties, Your Excellencies Heads of State and Government, The President of the UN General Assembly, The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Distinguished Ministers and Heads of Delegation, Dear Colleagues Heads of (...)

Right to Food: Time to Act!

by Jacques Diouf

Rome (Italy) | 3 November 2007

Anti-terror hysteria masks the real contemporary political stakes, with the food issue in the first line. 854 million people suffer from hunger, as Jacques Diouf, Director-General for Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), reminds us. Our foremost duty is to feed them.