United Nations Radio

There's a call for the establishment of a new system of governance of world food security following the failure of the current system.

Jacques Diouf

The call comes from the head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization Jacques Diouf as the FAO announced that heads of government of Caribbean Community-CARICOM countries as well as the presidents of Brazil and Chile are putting their support behind a proposal for a World Summit on Food Security.
The summit is being planned for next November in Rome on the occasion of the 36th session of the Conference of the FAO.
Diouf says the summit would reach tangible results by securing broad consensus on the total and rapid eradication of hunger and setting a new world food order.
He says "the summit should lead to greater coherence in the global governance of world food security."
Diouf says "it will define how we can improve policies and the structural aspects of the international agricultural system by putting forward lasting political, financial and technical solutions to the problem of food insecurity in the world."
The FAO chief has repeatedly appealed to the international community to put greater action behind their promises to fight hunger by designing a new agricultural order and mobilizing $30 billion per year to invest in rural infrastructure and boost agricultural production and productivity in developing countries.
He says it's the only way the international community will succeed to eradicate hunger and feed a world population that will reach 9 billion in 2050.

This is Donn Bobb reporting for United Nations Radio.

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