Alongside the World Food Prize ceremony, we also hold the Borlaug Dialogue, an internationally renowned three-day conference on global agriculture and a day-long Iowa Hunger Summit focusing on grassroots solutions to hunger at home and abroad.

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The charity is calling on the British government to stage a world summit on hunger in London around the time of the Olympics when leaders from around the globe will be gathered there.

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Diouf noted that nearly a decade ago, more than 100 countries attending the World Food Summit pledged to halve world hunger by 2015.

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The summit was not supposed to produce a deal or a worldwide agreement on tackling hunger.

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In a key policy document prepared for the summit, the FAO says the international community should take urgent and concrete actions to address the issues of hunger and malnutrition caused by rising food prices.

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