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September 23, 2010

FAO Chief: Corporate Influence Undermining Development
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Obama will again the address the UN with a speech before the General
Assembly today. His comments on aid come as the head of the UN’s Food
and Agriculture Organization has said that corporate influence is
undermining sustainable development worldwide. Speaking at a farming
summit in London, Dr. Samuel Jutzi said, "I have now been twenty years
in a multilateral organization which tries to develop guidance and codes
for good agricultural practice, but the real, true issues are not being
addressed by the political process because of the influence of
lobbyists, of the true powerful entities."



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