"This paper looks at financing for the achievement of the MDGs [Millennium Development Goals]. It does so from the perspective of FAO, IFAD and WFP [ United Nations organisations] working on food, agriculture, and rural development issues. The paper shows how widespread hunger is an impediment to overall growth and poverty reduction efforts ... mobilizing and carefully deploying resources where the impact can be greatest, is fundamental to the effort to reduce poverty, hunger and food insecurity ... [and] illustrates that resources deployed in fighting hunger directly and in agricultural and rural development can make substantial and sustainable contributions to overall poverty alleviation." (Quoted from paper) (The paper is available through the link)