World Food Day - 16 October
Authors
___________________________________________________________________________________________
2010 Theme
United against Hunger
The theme of this year’s observance is United against hunger, chosen to recognize the efforts made in the fight against world hunger at national, regional and international levels.
Uniting against hunger becomes real when state and civil society organizations and the private sector work in partnership at all levels to defeat hunger, extreme poverty and malnutrition.
In 2009, the critical threshold of one billion hungry people in the world was reached in part due to soaring food prices and the financial crisis, a “tragic achievement in these modern days", according to FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf. On the eve of the hunger summit, Dr Diouf launched an online petition to reflect the moral outrage of the situation. The “1 billion hungry project” reaches out to people through online social media to invite them to sign the anti-hunger petition at www.1billionhungry.org.
Source:http://www.fao.org/getinvolved/worldfoodday/en/
Our Belief for Action
With willpower, courage and persistence – and many players working together and helping each other – more food can be produced, more sustainably, and get into the mouths of those who need it most.
___________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________
Short urls
http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/2utb2lsm2k7a/4743Narayana Rao - 14 Jul 2011