Each year, on October 16, FAO – the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – is organizing the Food World Day, which commemorates the date of its creation in 1945. This year the event will focus on food security in times of crisis, to focus on the fact that the global crisis hit with full forces smallholder farmers and rural areas, where live and work 70% of the people suffering hunger in the world.
Keywords of this advocacy initiative are “Imagine” and “Get involved “. Indeed, the WFD objectives are to increase public awareness of the problem of hunger in the world to encourage all countries to pay more attention to agricultural production and encourage further efforts in this sense at national, bilateral, multilateral and non-governmental levels; to promote technology transfer in the developing countries ; to strengthen solidarity at national and international levels to fight hunger, malnutrition and poverty, and attract the attention on the results obtained in food and agricultural development; to encourage the involvement of the rural population, especially women and the least privileged categories, in decisions and activities influencing their living conditions; to encourage economic and technical cooperation among developing countries.
Highlight: Rome, 16 October 2009
Partnership established between FAO and the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU), the International Council of French-Speaking Radio and Television (CIRTEF) and the Permanent Conference of Mediterranean Audiovisual Operators (COPEAM).
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