All for one aim: Multi-pronged approach to fight hunger

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1CychirrRYaW_15MiW7jgOhA2Fw7qYEvAqy-3ohX8mn66nikRz_7Xa5O8623yD_ldGMLjep86Bnahyvk9p9QZHBZp6Qpmot3R9l-jJmnGoA1cF1Yxtq0nbe_-hgQmEqxAFojP6c-8Xxw/s1600/hunger.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1CychirrRYaW_15MiW7jgOhA2Fw7qYEvAqy-3ohX8mn66nikRz_7Xa5O8623yD_ldGMLjep86Bnahyvk9p9QZHBZp6Qpmot3R9l-jJmnGoA1cF1Yxtq0nbe_-hgQmEqxAFojP6c-8Xxw/s1600/hunger.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Photo credit: Julie Carney, Gardens for Health International</span></td></tr> </tbody></table><br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><i>Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet project</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 8.0pt;">By <a href="http://www.groundreport.com/NourishingthePlanet"><span style="text-decoration: none;">NourishingthePlanet</span></a>   <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The volatility of food prices, in particular price upswings, represents a major threat to food security in developing countries and typically affects poor populations the hardest. According to the World Bank, during 2010–11 rising food costs pushed nearly 70 million people worldwide into extreme poverty.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">World Food Day is a global event designed to increase awareness and understanding and to create year-round action to alleviate hunger. Since 1981, the event has been observed on October 16 in recognition of the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a specialized agency that was established in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Quebec City</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place>, in 1945. This year’s World Food Day theme is “Food prices – crisis to stability,” with the purpose of shedding some light on this trend and what can be done to mitigate its impact on the most vulnerable.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Since the inception of World Food Day, organizations have taken advantage of the occasion to inform the public about what they can do to help end world hunger. Although the number of undernourished people worldwide has decreased since 2009, to nearly 1 billion, it is still unacceptably high. According to a recent FAO report, in <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> alone, nearly one-third of the population is undernourished and one child dies every six seconds because of the problem.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">On October 16 of this year, countries, organizations, and communities are organizing events to educate and raise awareness, with the aim of addressing widespread problems in food supply and distribution systems. These events are raising money to support projects that focus on initiatives such as measures to ease population growth, boost incomes, and prepare farmers to protect their harvests against the negative effects of climate change, among others.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Throughout the world, organizations and governments are developing and implementing various plans to stabilize food prices and ensure that there is food on every table. Here are just a few examples:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">India</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">. The government is in the process of enacting a food security act that would provide food for nearly 70 percent of the population, specifically targeting the poor, who are often not counted in state surveys and who are denied many benefits.<o:p></o:p></span></li> </ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Armenia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">. The government is enacting a sustainable development program that invests in infrastructure improvements, makes financial services and credit available to farmers, encourages the environmentally sustainable use of natural resources, and ensures food safety by improving food standards.<o:p></o:p></span></li> </ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Telefood. Launched in 1997 by the FAO, Telefood funds micro projects that help small-scale farmers at the grassroots level. The projects aim to help farmers be more productive and to improve both local communities' access to food and farmers' access to cash income. Telefood is involved in 130 countries worldwide.<o:p></o:p></span></li> </ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">World Food Programme. The WFP operates in 74 countries and is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger. Currently, the Horn of Africa is suffering from the worst drought in 60 years, and 4 million people are in crisis in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Somalia</st1:place></st1:country-region>, with 750,000 people at risk of death in the next four months. WFP is providing food assistance to nearly 1 million people in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Somalia</st1:place></st1:country-region> and will scale up its operations during the coming months to reach some 1.9 million people.<o:p></o:p></span></li> </ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Hunger Free World. This Japanese NGO was formalized in 2000 with the goal of ending hunger and poverty through education and awareness around the world. The group supports local initiatives and young volunteers, organizes information programs, and joins forces with national and international networks to make these issues a priority for both citizens and politicians.<o:p></o:p></span></li> </ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Trussell Trust. This charity works to empower local communities to combat poverty and exclusion in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United Kingdom</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bulgaria</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Last year, the group’s <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.K.</st1:place></st1:country-region> food bank network fed more than 60,000 hungry people.<o:p></o:p></span></li> </ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><o:p>  </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">There is no single solution to end world hunger, and these are just a few of the organizations that are taking the multi-pronged approach that is necessary to address this global problem. World Food Day is the perfect occasion for researchers, policymakers, and NGOs to reflect on the existing efforts as well as potential future initiatives that can help fight global hunger and malnutrition. ---<a href="http://www.groundreport.com/World/All-for-one-aim-Multi-pronged-approach-to-fight-hu/2941975"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Ground Report</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

All for one aim: Multi-pronged approach to fight hunger

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