FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf and US President Barack Obama in attendance at the G8 Summit held in L'Aquila
10 July 2009, L'Aquila - FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf today welcomed the G8's $20 billion Food Security Initiative as an encouraging policy shift in favour of the poor and hungry. ??Addressing the G8, Diouf said "The L'Aquila Joint Statement on Global Food Security ... signals a welcome and encouraging shift of policy in favour of helping the poor and hungry to produce their own food."