More than 10,000 anti-globalisation activists demonstrated in Rome
at the weekend ahead of the World Food Summit taking place this
week in the Italian capital. The summit, hosted by the UN's Food
and Agriculture Organisation...
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) will soon host a
global meeting to review progress towards ending hunger. The
meeting, the 'World Food Summit: five years later' aims to track
progress achieved since the 1996...
The director general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation
(FAO) has proposed that a World Food Summit originally scheduled
for next month should be postponed until June 2002, the Rome-based
body said on Monday.
The United Nations food body has accepted an Italian proposal to
move a planned world food summit from Rome to Rimini, but officials
are still haggling over costs, sources familiar with the event said
on Wednesday.