ROME (Reuters) - An absence of many world leaders undermined this week's U.N. food summit from the start, and its final declaration shows little progress was made in the fight against hunger.
U.N. officials put on a brave face throughout the Nov. 16-18 Rome meeting, saying it had won broad support for the need to focus on longer-term agricultural development -- rather than emergency aid -- to help poor countries feed themselves.
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