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: