16/10/09 – Three months after world leaders met at the G8 Summit 2009 in L’Aquila, Italy (July 8 – 10), reaffirming food security and sustainable agriculture as global priorities, the world remembers on this day – the UN World Food Day – that more than one billion people are suffering from hunger and malnutrition, an increase of over 100 million from last year.
This year, the theme is “Achieving food security in times of crisis.”
With approximately one sixth of all humanity suffering from hunger – a situation aggravated by the current global economic crisis – the World Food Day reminds us to look beyond the numbers and statistics to the real suffering that they represent.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the world population will grow by 50 percent and reach 9 billion by 2050. Finding ways to ensure sufficient and safe food to feed the planet will be primordial for world peace and stability. The “silent hunger crisis,” as the FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf calls it, will affect – if it doesn’t already – all of us in some way.
In the words of Josette Sheeran, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), “Today is World Food Day but one out of every six people on earth will go to bed hungry tonight. So I’m going to rename this No Food Day. We need the world to help us win the battle against hunger.”
In 2015, Italy will host its World Expo – gathering governments, international organizations, civil society groups, corporations, experts and other key actors — in the hopes of helping the world do just this.
Under the theme, “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life,” the EXPO Milano 2015 will be held between May 1st and October 31st, 2015.
This year, the theme is “Achieving food security in times of crisis.”
With approximately one sixth of all humanity suffering from hunger – a situation aggravated by the current global economic crisis – the World Food Day reminds us to look beyond the numbers and statistics to the real suffering that they represent.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the world population will grow by 50 percent and reach 9 billion by 2050. Finding ways to ensure sufficient and safe food to feed the planet will be primordial for world peace and stability. The “silent hunger crisis,” as the FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf calls it, will affect – if it doesn’t already – all of us in some way.
In the words of Josette Sheeran, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), “Today is World Food Day but one out of every six people on earth will go to bed hungry tonight. So I’m going to rename this No Food Day. We need the world to help us win the battle against hunger.”
In 2015, Italy will host its World Expo – gathering governments, international organizations, civil society groups, corporations, experts and other key actors — in the hopes of helping the world do just this.
Under the theme, “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life,” the EXPO Milano 2015 will be held between May 1st and October 31st, 2015.
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