this recent trend coincided with the onset of the new millennium and commitments made by the donor community in particular to africa in addition in the total annual average aid commitments to agriculture amounted to us billion organization for economic cooperation and development which represented a positive step towards increasing financing for agriculture in developing countries still in the highlevel task force on the global food security crisis urged donor countries to double oda for food assistance other types of nutritional support and safety net programmes and to increase the proportion of oda to be invested in food security and agricultural development from the current to per cent within five years and beyond if needed so as to reverse the historic underinvestment in agriculture united nations