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Presentation of awards to the four first prize winners of the annual World Food Day poster competition organized by the United Nations Women's Guild.

The Director-General awards the World Food Day Year 2008 medals to the four first prize winners of the World Food Day poster competition organized by the United Nations Women's Guild.

Her Excellency Suzanne Mubarak, First Lady of the Arab Republic of Egypt, congratulating the four first prize winners of the annual World Food Day poster competition organized by the United Nations Wo

World Food Day address delivered by FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf.

Her Excellency Suzanne Mubarak, First Lady of the Arab Republic of Egypt, attending the World Food Day ceremony.

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Presentation of awards to the four first prize winners of the annual World Food Day poster competition organized by the United Nations Women's Guild.

16 October 2008, Rome - World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy is the theme of this year's World Food Day held on 16 October, the day that FAO was founded in Quebec City in 1945, and now observed annually in some 150 countries. Speaking at the 28th World Food Day ceremony, FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf called for a political and financial push to boost agriculture in the world's poor countries, double global food production and free the world of hunger and malnutrition.

10/16/2008

Location Rome

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