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'Famine can be avoided'
17 February 2012, Rome --Last January, FAO Director-General, José Graziano da Silva traveled to Africa and was accompanied by new Chair of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS*), Ambassador Yaya Olaniran, also the Nigerian Permanent Representative to Food Agencies in Rome. (Photo:Somali farmers/©FAO/SIMON MAINA)
Ambassador Yaya Olaniran of Nigeria in Rome, was elected as Chair of the Committee on World Food security for a two year term, last October 2012. His agenda for action took him to Africa, last January 2012, on a trip with the Director-Genral of FAO. In the following interview, Ambassador Yaya expresses his views and thoughts on the way forward:
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