Statement by delegation head acting Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs David Nelson ON HIGH LEVEL MEETING ON FOOD SECURITY FOR ALL
 

The United States is on track to invest over 5.5 billion dollars in 2008 and 2009 to fight global hunger, including 1.64 billion of new money committed last year in response to the crisis. Yesterday, you heard Secretary Clinton express the United States’ even deeper commitment on international food security.

However, governments alone cannot provide the needed investment and policy support to adequately address food security. That is why the United States is committed to a Global Partnership for Agriculture and Food Security. This partnership, involving all relevant stakeholders, including developed, developing and emerging economy country governments, the private sector, civil society, farmers, donors and international institutions, can better coordinate efforts to improve agriculture and food security in order to achieve the hunger related Millennium Development Goal.

This meeting in Madrid offers an excellent opportunity for this new, lasting partnership to take shape. To this end, we welcome the initiative of the UN High Level Task Force to begin an intensive consultation process, the Madrid Process, from which we believe a meaningful and effective global partnership will be born.

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