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As Secretary, Veneman focused on new approaches to help feed the hungry around the world.

To help meet the international goal of reducing global hunger by half by 2015, she organized and hosted in 2003 the Ministerial Conference on Science and Technology, which brought together ministers from 120 nations to California, to discuss how science and technology can reduce hunger and poverty in the developing world.

The conference, as well as subsequent regional conferences and follow-up activities, helped recapture the momentum of the World Food Summit.