Inter Press Service features interview with incoming FAO director general

Inter Press Service features excerpts from an interview with Jose Graziano da Silva, former Brazilian minister of food security, "who takes over as the new director general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on January 1." Graziano da Silva "believes it is possible to eradicate hunger in the world" and "says that what is needed is an increase in political commitment, the mobilization of even modest resources, and the adoption of absolute rather than relative targets," according to IPS (Frayssinet, 12/8).