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World Food Day celebrations in Mauritania

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FAO's Goodwill Ambassadors promote the Hunger Summit

FAO's Goodwill Ambassadors are speaking with one voice in an urgent appeal on behalf of more the more than one billion people living in chronic hunger worldwide. These celebrities from the worlds of entertainment, sport, fashion and science are helping to build momentum in advance of the World Summit on Food Security (“the Hunger Summit”) taking place in Rome from 16 to 18 November.

Pierre Cardin, Carl Lewis, Roberto Baggio, Anggun, Dionne Warwick, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Gong Li, Noa, Ronan Keating, Fanny Lu have all strongly stated that the plight of these billion undernourished people is [...]

Political will and investments can eradicate hunger – FAO launches online anti-hunger petition

As part of the week long activities lined up to mark the 2009 World Food Day in Nigeria, the observance of the Day was successfully carried out in various parts of the country. In Abuja, this year’s World Food Day was celebrated in a multi-location setting from 12 to 16 October 2009. The event was held alongside the 2009 National Agricultural Show in Tudun Wada, Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, about 45 minutes drive from the capital city, Abuja. Ministries and Agencies of the Federal Government, Private Sector Organizations, Civil Society Groups, NGOs, Farmers Associations [...]

Hunger is worsening. Globally, there is now a total of 29 countries suffering from food shortage according to the 2009 Global Hunger Index. In Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo scored the worst, followed by Burundi, Eritrea, Sierra Leone, Chad, and Ethiopia. Hunger remains distressingly high throughout much of Sub-Saharan Africa.

The countries mentioned have alarming of hunger, and thirteen countries have actually seen increases in their hunger levels since 1990. And of the ten countries that have seen the largest increase in their Index scores, nine are in Sub-Saharan Africa. The [...]