Dakar — Even as international efforts to find a solution to soaring world food prices continue, outspoken Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade this week launched a scathing attack on the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), saying it should be scrapped.
Mr Wade, whose country has faced several demonstrations over high food prices in the past few months, said FAO had failed to supply the world with enough food, and had not assisted in the adoption of sound agricultural policies.
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