World Food Day 2010

For the past 27 years,people all over the world have been celebrating World Food Day on the 16th October.
There is a theme and this year´s is "United Against Hunger".
The hungry are mostly the rural poor living in developing countries, mostly subsistence farmers, mostly women and children.  And most of them live in Asia or South America, and especially Africa.
If we are to make a difference, we must be united against hunger.Watch this PSA  for 2010


To feed a growing population, we need to increase food production without degrading soils and water resources. This video looks at rural communities in Viet Nam and Senegal . They have found different ways of using natural ecosystem services to optimise efficiencies in farming.


For more information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Food_Day
World Food Day: What is it, and what can I do?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2010/10/101011_witn_global_hunger_page.shtml