World Food Day Spot 2006

Agriculture must play a starring role on the world stage if we are to bring down the curtain on hunger. Yet foreign aid for agriculture and rural development has continued to decline. From a total of over US$9 billion per year in the early 1980s, it fell to less than US$5 billion in the late 1990s. Meanwhile, an estimated 854 million people around the world remain undernourished.