World Food Day: 1 billion people in the world are starving

World Food Day 2010 will be observed on 1th October 2010 with the theme of “united against hunger,” stressing the significance of unity in solving the world food crisis against the backdrop of a slowly recovering world economy and a fragile moral alliance forged by the international community to combat hunger.

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a United Nations agency that leads international efforts to defeat hunger, provides a stage on which all parties can act to alleviate poverty and fight hunger in the world.

Putting “unity” as the key word for World Food Day this year underlines that collective power is indispensable when the world is hit by major crises.

Unity has various forms and international relief is one of them.

Executive Director of the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) Josette Sheeran said, without the generous support of nations, private donors and individuals who gave 4 billion U.S. dollars during a time of economic hardship, the WFP could not have provided life-saving food and nutrition assistance for 101.8 million people last year.

International cooperation is another form of unity.

FAO officials used to say that defeating hunger was a global campaign and the battleground was everywhere.

Hungarian supporters are:

Bonbonetti Kft.
Coca-Cola Hellenic
Detki Keksz Kft.
Füri Tésztaipari és Élelmiszerforgalmazó Kft.
Gyermelyi Zrt.
Haladás Mg Zrt.
Izsáki Házitészta Kft.
Nestlé Hungária Kft.
NT Kft.
Profi Zrt.
Sara Lee Hungary Zrt.
Sole-Mizo Zrt.
Soós Tésztaipari Kft.
TESCO Globál Áruházak Zrt.
Univer Zrt.