Achieving Food Security in Times of Crisis

At a time when the global economic crisis dominates the news, the world needs to be reminded that not everyone works in offices and factories. The crisis is stalking the small-scale farms and rural areas of the world, where 70 percent of the world's hungry live and work. With an estimated increase of 105 million hungry people in 2009, there are now 1.02 billion malnourished people in the world, meaning that almost one sixth of all humanity is suffering from hunger [more].

Achieving Food Security in Times of Crisis is this year's theme of the World Food Day. It will be observed at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 29 October 2009 [see Activities in New York].