"The World Food Summit not only reaffirmed the right to adequate food," UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director General Jacques Diouf was quoted as saying, "but also explicitly recognized the crucial link between food security and democracy and civil and political rights as part of the enabling environment that is necessary for the full enjoyment of the right to food."

The Director General also called upon the international community to assist states that cannot feed their citizens. He also reiterated that the presence of hunger hampers human rights.

"We know that there is enough wealth in the world to ensure a minimum standard of living for everyone and we should devote our joint efforts to the rights of the poor to a free and dignified life," Diouf said, "of which adequate food is fundamental."

An official FAO statement addressed armed conflicts, saying the deliberate starvation of citizens is forbidden in the Geneva Conventions. "So is blocking humanitarian assistance and failing to come to the assistance of people in dire need," the statement reads. "But the failure to address the silent undernourishment of millions of children and adults in peacetime should also be regarded as a violation of the right to food."

Diouf reportedly called on organizations to urgently address violations of peoples right to food, reportedly saying that nobody should die of hunger. "The scandal of hunger merits more outrage than it is getting, not only on moral grounds, but because it is a human rights violation on a massive scale," the statement read.