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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10026

25 November 2009
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS / A look behind the news, by ferdinando riccardi
Shadow boxing in the fight against world famine

Money is not the be-all and end-all. One of the international debates where Europe is playing a key role is in the fight against famine in the world. The recent UN Food and Agriculture Organisation's World Food Summit in Rome is widely described as a failure. How exactly did it fail? In not drumming up enough pledges of financial aid to boost farming in poor countries. There has been a veritable chorus of lamentations from various political groups, the FAO, poor countries that receive aid...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS