WORLD FOOD DAY: OCTOBER 16, 2009

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FAO Home Get Involved Home News Highlights Press/publicity Partners Multimedia Donate now! World Food Day TeleFood campaign Goodwill Ambassadors Professional Football Against Hunger Worldwide events Contact         “It is imperative that we support FAO’s campaign, urging young people, who more than adults enjoy the ability to spring into action…”  Rita Levi Montalcini. more…     “Achieving Food Security in Times of Crisis” is the World Food Day 2009 theme. more…     Donations to TeleFood fund small, self-contained agriculture, livestock and fisheries projects that help poor families produce more food. more…     Donations to TeleFood projects Donations to TeleFood projects are designed to give poor families and communities the tools necessary to increase the quantity and variety of food they produce. Not a penny is spent on administrative costs. Although small in scale and cost, TeleFood projects make a significant impact.       Professional Football Against Hunger Over 200 football clubs playing in more than 100 stadiums and millions of football fans will be involved in the first ever Europe-wide football weekend against hunger being held from 20 to 22 March 2009. The campaign aims at raising awareness about the urgent need to fight hunger and poverty. The funds raised during the football weekend will help to finance TeleFood small scale fighting hunger projects around the world. The International Alliance Against Hunger The International Alliance Against Hunger was created in Rome in 2003 on the recommendation of the World Food Summit, to strengthen both global and national resolve to address the scourges of hunger and malnutrition on a scale that matches the enormity of the problems. At global level, the International Alliance brings together major international institutions responsible for agriculture, food and nutrition with a growing number of international NGOs committed to ensuring that all people have enough to eat healthy diets.[...]   The Right to Food The Right to Food information and knowledge system is a knowledge platform to support the progressive realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the context of national food security. [...]

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