Food: WTO "Must Address" Food Security

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br /> </span></div><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/AVvXsEiPe74hd17DoyGL5gtRyE5uwjdJxH5pSi5KVr803Hxyj7t8Ui1KNiHdDrD0wjFedQffkSlU9r6BgUerBW_HhyG6WVVE8K7UfcZUUDwUGaJxpIonUfHg98M4fwaxTCLfFDUWgrsyOb3-SME/s1600/FOODWTO.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPe74hd17DoyGL5gtRyE5uwjdJxH5pSi5KVr803Hxyj7t8Ui1KNiHdDrD0wjFedQffkSlU9r6BgUerBW_HhyG6WVVE8K7UfcZUUDwUGaJxpIonUfHg98M4fwaxTCLfFDUWgrsyOb3-SME/s400/FOODWTO.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8pt;">Photo: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8pt;">Small farmers in developing countries cannot compete<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8pt;">with subsidised big farmers in developed countries<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><br /> </div></td></tr> </tbody></table><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><st1:city w:st="on">JOHANNESBURG</st1:city> (IRIN) - An exchange between two leading world officials on how trade affects food insecurity in countries has helped focus attention on the stalled <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Doha</st1:city></st1:place> trade talks.</span></div><br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Olivier de Schutter, UN Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, says: “Food security is the elephant in the room, which WTO [the World Trade Organization] must address”, pointing out that food import bills had soared by a third for poor countries this year. <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';">Schutter said developing countries should limit their reliance on international trade to ensure they had enough food and be able to put in place measures to beef up their own production and insulate themselves from global price shocks. <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';">Pascal Lamy, director-general of the WTO, on the other hand, believes food security is central to the WTO’s Agreement on Agriculture (AoA), the world's first treaty aimed at improving market access and reducing trade-distorting subsidies in agriculture and the Doha Round. <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';">Measures such as temporary import restrictions, state purchases from small-scale farmers,</span></div><table align="right" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #eeeeee; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 6pt; margin-right: 6pt; margin-top: -0.75pt; width: 200px;"><tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="border: none; padding: 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 8.25pt; mso-element-frame-vspace: 1.5pt; mso-element-left: right; mso-element-top: middle; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #006699; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 9pt;">Some issues WTO needs to address in agriculture<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; border: none; padding: 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><img align="absMiddle" border="0" height="10" src="file:///C:\Users\wisdom\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image001.gif" v:shapes="_x0000_i1025" width="12" /><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; border: none; padding: 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt; width: 100.0%;" width="100%"><div class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="color: #006699; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;">Ceilings on subsidies</span></strong><span style="color: #006699; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;">: Current ceilings on how much the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> and the EU can spend on subsidies that distort trade are still rather high<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: #006699; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; border: none; padding: 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><img align="absMiddle" border="0" height="10" src="file:///C:\Users\wisdom\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image001.gif" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026" width="12" /><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; border: none; padding: 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt; width: 100.0%;" width="100%"><div class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="color: #006699; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;">Cotton subsidies</span></strong><span style="color: #006699; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;">: The <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> has still not fully complied with a WTO ruling in 2009 to remove subsidies for its cotton producers.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> African farmers could have gained from a 3.5 percent average increase in world cotton prices, if the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> had cut subsidies.</span><span style="color: #006699; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; border: none; padding: 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><img align="absMiddle" border="0" height="10" src="file:///C:\Users\wisdom\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image001.gif" v:shapes="_x0000_i1027" width="12" /><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; border: none; padding: 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt; width: 100.0%;" width="100%"><div class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="color: #006699; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;">Biofuel Subsidies</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #006699; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;"> </span></b></span><span style="color: #006699; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;">: Not covered yet. A new study found that US ethanol subsidies may have artificially inflated maize prices by as much as 17 percent in 2011.</span><span style="color: #006699; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; border: none; padding: 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #006699; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 7.5pt;">Source: ICTSD<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr> </tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">allowing state-held food reserves, safety net insurance schemes and targeted farm subsidies could help, said Schutter, but WTO rules left little space for developing countries to implement them. <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';">He said WTO members should convene a panel of experts to analyse whether existing WTO rules, and those being negotiated under the Doha Round were compatible with national and international food policies; assess the impact of trade liberalization on world food prices; and initiate talks at the WTO to take into account the long-term impacts of the 2007 global food price crisis for the international trade regime. (More details in his briefing note, The World Trade Organization and the Post-Global Food Crisis Agenda: Putting Food Security First in the International Food System) <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';">Lamy points out that most experts, including those in the UN, agree that international trade is part of the solution. <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';">Allowing developing countries to implement trade restrictive measures could hurt them the most, as, he said, “About 60 percent of developing countries’ agriculture exports go to other developing countries.” <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';">Lamy agreed with Schutter on the need to ensure safety nets are in place to help the urban and rural poor, but he said the AoA provides developing countries with the room to implement policies in line with their national objectives through the use of certain subsidies. <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';">Developing countries do not have to cut their subsidies or lower their tariffs as much as developed countries, and they are given extra time to complete their obligations under AoA. Poor countries don’t have to do this at all, he added. <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';">The Doha Round could help to give developing countries more space by making it easier to maintain food reserves for food security purposes for instance, said Lamy. (More details on Lamy’s response) <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';"><b>Other views </b><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';">Almost all economists, and even those within the UN, agree that trade is part of the solution and insulating domestic economies with trade restrictions might work in the short-term for a particular country but can have far-reaching repercussions for others in the region. <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';">Economist Dirk Willem te Velde at the <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region>’s Overseas Development Institute (ODI) cited <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tanzania</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s export ban on maize in July as an example. “At that moment, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Kenya</st1:place></st1:country-region> would have wanted more trade rather than less in order to become more food secure.” <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';"><b>The <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Doha</st1:place></st1:city> Round </b><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';">The Schutter-Lamy debate has reopened issues around the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Doha</st1:place></st1:city> talks which have been going on, in stop-start mode, for the last 10 years.  <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';">"Two schools of thought are emerging", said Jonathan Hepburn, the agriculture programme manager at the Geneva-based think-tank, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development: One says that “with Doha in limbo, high and volatile food prices, a changing climate, and growing world population, it made sense to begin discussing how trade relates to food security and other issues. <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';">"The other - of concluding <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Doha</st1:place></st1:city> first - is favoured by many developing countries who have invested scarce resources in maintaining missions and negotiators at the talks for 10 years." <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';">Economist Edward Clay of the ODI says: “Perhaps no one is actually able to admit that the Doha Development Round [DDR] is dead and so begin the discussion again with that openly conceded. That leads to the question what should be taken over from the DDR." <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';">He digs deeper: "Trade and food security is in effect a WTO issue, and so there is great frustration within the UN that this enormously restricts the role of, for example, the Food and Agriculture Organization-based Committee on Food Security: the key issues are not just discussed but actually negotiated elsewhere. <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';">"Second, primarily allowing trade to address food security is somewhat in greater doubt in our current era of extreme food commodity market volatility."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div></div>

Food: WTO "Must Address" Food Security

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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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