30 November 2014, Rome, Italy - His Excellency Brahim Ould M??eck Ould Mohamed el Moctar, Minister for Rural Development of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania. FAO awards ceremony recognizing outstanding progress in fighting hunger - Awarding MDG-1 and WFS country achievements. During the ceremony FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva awarded diplomas to government representatives of 13 countries for the early achievement of the Millennium Development Goal 1 (MDG-1) hunger target - to halve the proportion of hungry people by 2015 - or the more stringent 1996 World Food Summit (WFS) target of halving the absolute number of hungry people by 2015. FAO headquarters (Sheikh Zayed Centre).