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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and delegation exiting hotel, zoom into Mugabe, pan as he enters car2. Mugabe getting into car3. Delegate4. Pan of vehicle transporting Mugabe driving away 5. Presser cutaway6. SOUNDBITE: (English)...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and delegation exiting hotel, zoom into Mugabe, pan as he enters car\u003cbr/\u003e2. Mugabe getting into car\u003cbr/\u003e3. Delegate\u003cbr/\u003e4. Pan of vehicle transporting Mugabe driving away \u003cbr/\u003e5. Presser cutaway\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ed Schafer, US Secretary of Agriculture:\u003cbr/\u003e\"If their presence here overshadows the work of this esteemed body, I guess that will be up to the people in this room, including you. That will make the difference here, what the news is, so we ask that you keep the focus on the work that has been done by the body. Nobody from the US delegation will be meeting with the countries you mentioned.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Various interiors FAO (UN Food and Agriculture Organisation) hall\u003cbr/\u003e8. Various of demonstration against biofuels in front of FAO headquarters, with some of the protesters dressed as corn\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (English) Farida Chapman, Oxfam: \u003cbr/\u003e\"We want to demonstrate how biofuels can directly threaten the lives of over 300 (m) million people across the world, especially the lives of small farmers and small agricultural production.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Various of exterior of NGO parallel meeting\u003cbr/\u003e11. Activity inside NGO meeting\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE (English) Maryam Rahmanian, Cenesta NGO: \u003cbr/\u003e\"We don't want to leave it just to them to decide how to get out of this mess. So it's very important that the people who are most affected by the food crisis and by the climate change have a say in how it's affecting them and how they think it should be solved.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Activist's scarf, reading \"solve the food crisis. food sovereignty!\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alberto Gomez, Via Campesina NGO: \u003cbr/\u003e\"We know there's enough food for everyone, twice the amount the world population would need. The problem is who is controlling this food, the problem is the access to this food, the problem is speculation.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Various shots of NGO parallel food crisis meeting\u003cbr/\u003eZimbabwe's president came under fire on Monday for travelling to Rome to participate in this week's UN summit on the global food crisis while his people are going hungry.\u003cbr/\u003ePresident Robert Mugabe arrived in Rome late on Sunday for the summit, which begins on Tuesday and is hosted by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).\u003cbr/\u003eThe president was staying at a posh Rome hotel on Via Veneto on Monday and did not respond to reporters' shouted questions as he briefly left the venue.\u003cbr/\u003eMugabe is widely blamed for the economic collapse of a country once considered a regional breadbasket but whose people are now increasingly unable to afford food and other essentials with agriculture paralysed by land reform and the world's highest rate of inflation. \u003cbr/\u003eThe president is normally subject to European Union travel restrictions that prevent him and more than 100 other political figures in Zimbabwe from setting foot in on EU territory. \u003cbr/\u003eThe travel restrictions, along with other sanctions, were imposed by the EU in 2002 because of Zimbabwe's poor record on human rights and renewed in 2007.\u003cbr/\u003eHowever, the Zimbabwean leader is free to attend the Rome summit as the sanctions do not apply for the United Nations. \u003cbr/\u003eThe president's visit is his first official overseas trip since he finished second in a March 29 presidential race. \u003cbr/\u003eIt comes amid accusations of a government crackdown on the opposition in the weeks before a June 27 presidential runoff.\u003cbr/\u003eSenior officials from about 40 nations will attend the summit, including US Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer.\u003cbr/\u003eHe told reporters on Monday that he hoped the Mugabe issue would not overshadow the important matters up for discussion at the talks.\u003cbr/\u003eSchafer also insisted that members of the US delegation had no intention of holding bilateral talks with Mugabe or other members of his team during the summit.\u003cbr/\u003eAs the debate about Mugabe's presence raged inside the headquarters of the FAO, outside, protesters gathered to demonstrate against the impact of the large-scale production of biofuels the strain on crop and forest land.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We want to demonstrate how biofuels can directly threaten the lives of over 300 (m) million people across the world, especially the lives of small farmers and small agricultural production,\" one of the protest organisers told AP Television.\u003cbr/\u003eEnvironmentalists, who once hailed biofuels as a key factor in climate change policy, now believe their production is encouraging deforestation. \u003cbr/\u003eThe diversion of food crops such as canola, corn, soybeans and sugarcane to biofuels also is one factor blamed for the sharp rise in food prices over the past year.\u003cbr/\u003eCritics also say biofuel production threatens biodiversity and water supplies and may accelerate global warming, as rain forests, and other ecosystems that store carbon are destroyed to make way for fields. \u003cbr/\u003eBiofuels also require pesticides and fertilisers that produce greenhouse gases.\u003cbr/\u003eThe FAO has said the three-day summit starting on Tuesday will provide a \"historic chance\" to relaunch the fight against hunger and poverty and boost agricultural production in developing countries.\u003cbr/\u003eAccording to the UN agency, an estimated 850 (m) million people in the world suffer from hunger, most of them in developing countries. \u003cbr/\u003eHowever, there have been complaints from protest groups and non-governmental organisations that the summit does not provide a voice to those directly affected by the issues being discussed at the talks.\u003cbr/\u003eA number of activist organisations and NGOs have gathered in Rome to hold their own, four-day parallel conference, called Terra Preta (\"Dark Soil\") to voice their demands on how to overcome the crisis.  \u003cbr/\u003eThey are calling for a \"radical shift in agriculture policies\" that would help small-scale farmers to feed themselves and the populations of their countries.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We don't want to leave it just to them to decide how to get out of this mess. 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