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UN agency welcomes Obama initiative on food aid
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 09 - 07 - 2009


Plans by US President Barack Obama to
boost food production in the world's poorest nations mark a welcome
shift in aid policies that could help reduce migration towards the
West, dpa cited a UN agency on the food aid frontline as saying today.
"The time has past when we just gave aid and then turned away,"
said Kanayo Nwanze, head of the International Fund for Agricultural
Development (IFAD).
The initiative aims to "prevent problems rather than solve them,"
he said.
The IFAD president was attending a summit of Group of Eight (G8)
leaders in the Italian city of L'Aquila, where fellow leaders planned
Friday to endorse Obama's plan to spend 15 billion dollars on seeds,
irrigation systems and other long-term investments designed to help
the poor feed themselves.
"Tomororw we'll be discussing hunger and food security, and I
think we need to show the world that we will take action to avert
what is a famine and hunger emergency," said British Prime Minister
Gordon Brown, who is supporting the initiative.
The bulk of the money would be provided by the US and Japan and
would be channeled through agencies like IFAD, a Rome-based agency
which specializes in helping small farmers in poor nations.
Nwanze, who planned to address G8 leaders on Friday, said it was
gratifying to see the rich club of nations shift their attention away
"from emergency assistance to helping developing countries provide
for themselves and feed their own people."
Recalling the food riots 18 months ago that caused havoc in North
Africa and brought down the government of Haiti, Nwanze also praised
the G8 for treating food security as a global issue and as an engine
for growth.
"We now have sufficient proof that food security and national
security are inter-linked," Nwanze said.
At the Gleneagles summit of 2005, G8 leaders pledged 22 billion
dollars in aid to Africa by 2010.
So far, however, only a third of this pledge has been delivered.
But Nwanze played down concerns that Obama's announcement Friday
would eventually result in another empty promise.
"We did not have a food crisis back then," he said.
IFAD, which also provides funding to small farmers, says 75 per
cent of the world's poorest people - 1.05 billion women, children and
men - live in rural areas and depend on agriculture and related
activities for their livelihoods.


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