FAO head calls for major increase in agricultural aid to Africa
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L'Aquila, Italy - Rich nations should reverse the decline in agricultural aid they give to the world's poorest so as to reduce hunger and improve global peace and security, the head of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Wednesday. "The share of agriculture in official development assistance has fallen from 17 per cent in 1980 to 3.8 in 2006. We need to bring resources back to their 1980s levels," Jacques Diouf, a Senegalese diplomat who has headed the FAO since 1994, told the German Press Agency dpa. Diouf, who spoke to
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