'NOT A SINGLE CENT' FROM G8 AFTER FOOD AID PLEDGE
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'NOT A SINGLE CENT' FROM G8 AFTER FOOD AID PLEDGE
L'Aquila G8 summit, which was only expected to produce $15 billion.
It was greeted with enthusiasm by participating world leaders and the heads of international hunger relief agencies.
Diouf at the time said he was confident the world's eight biggest economies would "walk the talk" on fighting hunger.
World Food Programme Deputy Director Staffan De Mistura also hailed the decision as an impressive commitment reflecting generosity and farsightedness.
But aid agency Oxfam said it was unconvinced the commitment was really for "new money", complaining that much had already been promised before.
During FAO's food security summit last November, Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi urged fellow G8 leaders to deliver on their promise.
Berlusconi was the only G8 leader present at the summit, which was roundly condemned as a failure by hunger and poverty advocates.
After it convened, Diouf lamented that it had produced no firm commitment from the international community to devolve the resources necessary to stem world hunger.
According to FAO, the global recession last year took a heavy toll on the world's poor, raising the number of people affected by hunger over the one billion mark for the first time in history.
FAO said the world would be facing widespread famine in 40 years unless it boosted food production by 70%. Photo: FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf
'NOT A SINGLE CENT' FROM G8 AFTER FOOD AID PLEDGE
L'Aquila G8 summit, which was only expected to produce $15 billion.
It was greeted with enthusiasm by participating world leaders and the heads of international hunger relief agencies.
Diouf at the time said he was confident the world's eight biggest economies would "walk the talk" on fighting hunger.
World Food Programme Deputy Director Staffan De Mistura also hailed the decision as an impressive commitment reflecting generosity and farsightedness.
But aid agency Oxfam said it was unconvinced the commitment was really for "new money", complaining that much had already been promised before.
During FAO's food security summit last November, Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi urged fellow G8 leaders to deliver on their promise.
Berlusconi was the only G8 leader present at the summit, which was roundly condemned as a failure by hunger and poverty advocates.
After it convened, Diouf lamented that it had produced no firm commitment from the international community to devolve the resources necessary to stem world hunger.
According to FAO, the global recession last year took a heavy toll on the world's poor, raising the number of people affected by hunger over the one billion mark for the first time in history.
FAO said the world would be facing widespread famine in 40 years unless it boosted food production by 70%. Photo: FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf
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what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama
when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
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