In a speech late on Sunday, President Abdoulaye Wade called the Rome-based FAO, created in 1945, a “bottomless pit of money largely spent on its own functioning with very little effective operations on the ground.” He appealed for new policies stressing self-sufficiency over charity to tackle the global food price crisis that threatens millions of the world’s poor with hardship and hunger, especially in Africa. He called for the FAO, headed by Senegalese technocrat Jacques Diouf, to be folded into a newer U.N. agency, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, to create a global agriculture-support body. This, he said, should be located in Africa — the most underdeveloped continent.


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