FAO Media Centre: Annan warns hunger could become permanent disaster
Annan warns hunger could become permanent disaster | ||
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![]() Kofi Annan addresses the 37th FAO Conference, 25 June 2011. "Along with tackling the linked problem of climate change, delivering global food and nutrition security is the challenge of our time,” he said. Delivering the 27th McDougall Memorial Lecture on food security today, the former UN Secretary General and Nobel Peace Prize winner said, "if countries cannot come together successfully to deliver food security – this most basic of human needs – our hopes for wider international co-operation look doomed." |
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