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World Bank President Robert B Zoellick holds up a bag of rice and a loaf of bread at a news conference in Washington

The un acknowledges that in the past few decades governments and international financial institutions have not paid any attention to agriculture. Now the un, states and financial institutions plan to invest in agriculture to ensure food security. Just before the conference at Rome, the World Bank came up with its 10-point plan to tackle the crisis and announced us $1.2 billion food assistance.

Civil society groups point out that the imf and the World Bank had never shown pro-poor approach.