WFP President Says the World Knows How to Feed Itself

(17 Novermber 09—RV) A three day summit at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization united nearly 200 countries behind a pledge to increase aid to farmers in poor countries to help the developing world lessen its dependence on foreign food aid. Speaking to journalists at the summit, the UN World Food Programme’s Executive Director, Josette Sheeran, said there has been a revolution in food aid: