Imagining World Food Security
Posted by Sidney Draggan on October 15th, 2009
This year, World Food Day occurs on October 16. This year’s theme is. “Achieving food security in times of crisis“.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations celebrates World Food Day each year on 16 October, the day on which the Organization was founded in 1945.
The objectives of World Food Day are to:
- encourage attention to agricultural food production and to stimulate national, bilateral, multilateral and non-governmental efforts to this end;
- encourage economic and technical cooperation among developing countries;
- encourage the participation of rural people, particularly women and the least privileged categories, in decisions and activities influencing their living conditions;
- heighten public awareness of the problem of hunger in the world;
- promote the transfer of technologies to the developing world; and
- strengthen international and national solidarity in the struggle against hunger, malnutrition and poverty and draw attention to achievements in food and agricultural development.
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The Challenges of Food Security is Global but more particular to developing nations. Governments all over the world are doing one thing or the other to tacle the situation.
# January 18th, 2010 3:27 ambut it is not only concerned with govts the should also have take an active part in it .