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Italy 2013, Events and meetings during FAO Conference, 38th Session

16 June 2013, Rome, Italy - FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva with, from right to left, John A, Dziwornu, national Secretary, Ghana National Association of farmers and Fishermen, Lemuel Quarshie Martey, Greater Accra Region, Ghana, 2012 National Best farmer, and Agbo Ignatius, Central Region Ghana, central Region Ghana, 2011 National Best farmer. Side Event: Recognizing outstanding progress in fighting hunger. Twenty countries have satisfied Millennium Development Goal (MDG) number one, to halve the proportion of hungry people between 1990-92 and 2010-2012, as established by the international community at the UN General Assembly in 2000. An additional 18 countries were congratulated for reaching both MDG-1 and the more stringent World Food Summit (WFS) goal to reduce by half the absolute number of undernourished people between 1990-92 and 2010-2012. The WFS goal was set in 1996, when 180 nations met at FAO headquarters to discuss ways to end hunger. FAO Conference, 38th Session. FAO headquarters (Plenary Hall).

06/16/2013

Location Rome

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