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2008.06.03
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In 2006 the world spent US$1 200 billion on arms while food wasted in a single country could cost US$100 billion and excess consumption by the world’s obese amounted to US$20 billion.
Jacques Diouf (FAO Director) appealed to world leaders for US$30 billion a year to re-launch agriculture and avert future threats of conflicts over food. Against that backdrop, how can we explain to people of good sense and good faith that it was not possible to find US$30 billion a year to enable 862 million hungry people to enjoy the most fundamental of human rights: the right to food and thus the right to life? Dr Diouf asked.
