UN General Assembly
2008

My country was among the first States to highlight the food crisis. The High-Level Conference on Food Security, held in Rome in June, was a responsible response from world leaders to the food crisis and the unprecedented increases in the prices of food, basic commodities and energy. I would like in that respect to thank the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization for their efforts in that field. To confront that problem, my country has adopted development projects and programmes which aim to achieve food security through improved investment in the agricultural sector and through support for farmers. In the African sphere, my country has allocated $5 billion to finance several development projects in order to achieve food security in a number of Sahelo-Saharan African States. It is also in the process of financing seven additional projects in African countries. The food crisis has been a topic of personal concern for our brother Muammar al-Qadhafi, the Leader of the Revolution, who in June, at the tenth