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	World Food Day - 16 October
		World Food Day was proclaimed in 1979 by the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
		The aim of the Day is to heighten public awareness of the world food problem and strengthen solidarity in the struggle against hunger, malnutrition and poverty.
		In 1980, the General Assembly endorsed observance of the Day in consideration of the fact that "food is a requisite for human survival and well-being and a fundamental human necessity" (resolution 35/70 of 5 December 1980).
	www.un.org /Depts/dhl/food/index.html (307 words)

	World Food Day 2006
		The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations celebrates World Food Day each year on 16 October, the day on which the Organization was founded in 1945.
		The World Food Day and TeleFood theme for 2006 is "Investing in agriculture for food security".
		Most of the world's farmers are small-scale farmers.
	www.fao.org /wfd/2006/index.asp?lang=en (319 words)

	World Food Day: Fight hunger to reduce poverty \| BBC World Service
		The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) states that hunger is ‘the most critical manifestation of poverty’, designating ‘fight hunger to reduce poverty’ the theme of this year’s World Food Day.
		This year’s World Food Day theme, Fight Hunger to Reduce Poverty, gives a voice to the economic evidence contained in recent FAO studies that the single most effective way to reduce poverty is to reduce hunger.
		Recognising that 70% of the world’s poor and hungry live in rural areas, the FAO insist that governmental and private sector investment is now needed in these regions if the world is to meet its target of halving the number of hungry by 2015.
	www.bbc.co.uk /worldservice/people/highlights/011016_hunger.shtml (719 words)

	World Food Day: Sunday, October 16th
		The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations celebrates World Food Day each year on October 16, the day on which FAO was founded in 1945.
		At the World Food Summit held in Rome in 1996 and again at the World Food Summit: Five Years Later in 2002, leaders vowed to reduce that number by half by 2015.
		World Food Day provides an opportunity at the local, national and international levels to further dialogue and enhance solidarity.
	www.ncrlc.com /WorldFoodDay.html (1108 words)

	World Food Day 2005
		For many of the undernourished people of the world, most of them living in rural areas, access to food is assured only if they produce the food themselves or if they have sufficient money to afford and buy it.
		World Food Day affords us an opportunity to focus our attention on food security, and its interaction with hunger and environmental degradation.
		This theme explores the contribution of different cultures to world agriculture and argues that sincere intercultural dialogue is a precondition for progress against hunger and environmental degradation.
	www.slumaffe.org /Speeches/World_Food_Day_2005/world_food_day_2005.html (1263 words)

	Extra- World Food Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		World Food Day was first observed in 1981 with the goal that "food for all" should become a human right for this generation and for future generations.
		On October 16, 1945, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) was founded to undertake a humanitarian mission of global importance–to erase hunger and poverty from the face of the planet.
		It emphasizes the importance of ensuring food supplies are adequate for all countries and that all members of society, including the poor and the disadvantaged, have year-round access to the food essential for active, healthy lives.
	www.newsweekeducation.com /extras/wfd.php (2239 words)

	World Food Day 2004
		However food gap was negative (surplus) as was the case in previous four years.
		It is observed that the share of intake of food grain in the daily diet has been decreasing (both in terms of weight as well as calorie) over the years.
		While the calorie share from food grain was 78 percent in 1991-92, it came down to 74 percent in 2000.
	www.sdnpbd.org /sdi/international_days/food_day/2004/report.htm (1269 words)

	Oregon Department of Agriculture News and Events: Oregon celebrates World Food Day 2004
		World Food Day, first observed in 1981, calls attention to producers and consumers of the world's food supply.
		Donated food is ending up as part of the emergency network that provides meals to the one of every eight Oregonians who need food assistance.
		Oregon's food industry is the largest provider of donations to the Oregon Food Bank network, and provides 60 percent of all direct donations.
	oregon.gov /ODA/news/041013world.shtml (952 words)

	World Food Day: The U.S. Commitment to Reducing World Hunger
		The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) celebrates World Food Day each year on October 16, the day on which the Organization was founded in 1945.
		On this World Food Day, the United States reaffirms its continuing commitment to the World Food Summit and the Millennium Development Goals.
		On the occasion of World Food Day, as we renew our commitment to feeding the hungry, let us also reaffirm our determination to find the lasting answers that go hand in hand with peace, democracy, opportunity, and education.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/prs/ps/2005/55146.htm (481 words)

	Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman's World Food Day Presentation 16oct02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		World Food Day is a reminder of the ongoing struggle to end poverty, hunger, and malnutrition throughout the world.
		Day in, and day out, they live with the pain of hunger and the debilitating effects of malnutrition.
		At the world food Summit five years later, I issued an invitation to ministers from around the world to join me for a science and technology conference next year, to focus on the needs of developing countries in adopting new food and agricultural technologies.
	www.mindfully.org /Food/Veneman-World-Food-Day16oct02.htm (1021 words)

	MCC Canada Ottawa Office - World Food Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In a culture obsessed with security, the issue of ‘food security’ for those in developing countries – their ability to access the plentiful food resources of the world – is often neglected.
		World Food Day presents an opportunity for churches and individuals to express solidarity with the underprivileged through education, and through support for programs seeking to ensure food security for all people.
		World Food Day is an important occasion for learning about situations where people lack food, and for supporting organizations that work at alleviating that need.
	www.mcc.org /canada/ottawa/world_food.html (459 words)

	UN Calendar of International Days - World Food Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The aim of World Food Day, proclaimed in 1979 by the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, is to heighten public awareness of the world food problem and strengthen solidarity in the struggle against hunger, malnutrition and poverty.
		The Day marks the date of the founding of the FAO in 1945.
		In 1980, the General Assembly endorsed observance of the Day in consideration of the fact that "food is a requisite for human survival and well-being and a fundamental human necessity" (resolution 35/70 of 5 December).
	www.lifebridge.org /undays/october16.htm (101 words)

	Celebrating World Food Day
		World Food Day is celebrated every year to mark the day on which FAO was founded in 1945.
		The theme recalls the contribution of different cultures to world agriculture and argues that sincere intercultural dialogue is a precondition for progress against hunger and environmental degradation.
		World Food Day provides an opportunity at local, national and international levels to further dialogue and enhance solidarity on these issues.
	www.jonesbahamas.com /?c=47&a=5589 (1082 words)

	COSMOWORLDS \| World Food Day 2006
		Dr. Diouf was addressing the annual World Food Day ceremony which marks the founding of FAO in 1945 and is observed in over 150 countries.
		Our greatest challenge today is to reach the objectives of the World Food Summit and first UN Millennium Development Goal, to halve by 2015 hunger and alleviate poverty worldwide,” said the FAO Director-General.
		Proceeds from events organized around World Food Day go to support FAO’s TeleFood programme to fund small income-generating projects that help very poor farmers to produce more food for their families and communities.
	www.cosmoworlds.com /world_food_day-2006.htm (503 words)

	60th Anniversary of World Food Day
		We're here to talk about World Food Day, which is celebrated on the 16th of October of every year to mark the anniversary of the founding of FAO in 1945.
		However, in the aggregate, to achieve the World Food Summit goal of cutting the number of the hungry by half by 2015, we'd have to be reducing hunger annually at a much faster pace.
		And already in many places in the world we have forests being slashed, we have fragile ecosystems that are being tapped to the limit.
	fpc.state.gov /fpc/54704.htm (2599 words)

	ZNet \|Ecology \| World Food Day
		World Food Day, which was celebrated on Saturday, is a time of year to reflect on where our food comes from, on the abundance of food for some, and the lack of access for so many others.
		The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation's (FAO) World Food Day this year reflects this intersection of cultural and agricultural diversity through it's theme: Agriculture and intercultural dialogue _ celebrating the contribution of different cultures to world agriculture.
		On World Food Day 2005, the absurd myth that genetically engineered rice has got anything at all to do with feeding the world should be finally buried in the dustbin of history.
	www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=56&ItemID=8955 (802 words)

	59th World Food Day\| NRCS
		World Food Day is sponsored by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization.
		I hope that all of you don’t walk away after this seminar over and say to yourselves “another World Food Day come and gone.” I hope you will want to contribute something, to make a difference, whether it’s on the job like for many of here in agriculture or somewhere else.
		World Food Day and the effort to guarantee food security to people all around the world.
	www.nrcs.usda.gov /news/speeches04/worldfoodday.html (642 words)

	World Food Day: Every day is Food Day
		The FAO aimed to rid the world of hunger, and to ensure that agriculture played its full role in development.
		I t is important that we devote at least one day to consider the challenge of hunger and how we can reduce human misery.
		Despite China ’s rising imports of rice, soya and other food, world prices for these commodities have not dramatically increased, and are not projected to do so.
	www.syngenta.com /en/day_in_life/world_food_day_2005.aspx (1171 words)

	World Food Day celebrated in style by Ambae
		This exhibition and workshop on preparing nutritious food was organised by the Penama Agriculture Department and funded through the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
		During the three days 32 different varieties of traditional dishes were prepared for the exhibition, of which six very old methods of preparing food that were revived.
		The World Food Day celebration included the participation of staff at the Lolowai Hospital who showed how to avoid sugar and salt by using local vegetables as their replacement.
	www.news.vu /en/news/environment/041113-world-food-day-celebrated.shtml (504 words)

	World Food Day teleconference to raise world hunger awareness
		World Food Day teleconference to raise world hunger awareness
		Director of Student Life at IU Northwest Linda Anderson, is on the World Food Day committee.
		The annual World Food Day Teleconference is sponsored by the US National Committee for World Food Day, and represents a coalition of 450 private voluntary organizations.
	www.iun.edu /~newsnw/pg/2004/041007_worldfood.shtml (365 words)

	World Food Day 2005
		The World Food Day and TeleFood theme for 2005, "Agriculture and intercultural dialogue", recalls the contribution of different cultures to world agriculture and argues that sincere intercultural dialogue is a precondition for progress against hunger and environmental degradation.
		Although the substitution of farming and livestock raising for hunting and gathering as the main mode of food production - the birth of agriculture - occurred independently in many parts of the world around 10 000 years ago, the history of agriculture is full of examples of important intercultural exchanges.
		Agriculture provided a more dependable source of food, causing populations to increase; eventually excess population migrated to new lands.
	www.fao.org /wfd/2005/index.asp?lang=en (233 words)

	World Food Day 2004: The political Economy of Hunger
		This year’s theme was “Biodiversity for Food Security” and focused on the massive loss of genetic diversity of agricultural crops over the last century.
		Since the founding of the FAO in 1945, it is estimated that 400 million people have died from hunger and poor sanitation, more than three times the number of people killed in wars fought during the entire 20th century.
		Ironically, the FAO maintains that our world produces enough food to provide every person with at least 2720 kilocalories (kcal) every day—more than enough for everyone to enjoy a healthy lifestyle.
	www.geocities.com /mnsocialist/foodday.html (1094 words)

	World Food Day Symposium
		Africa's near absence from the arena of world trade and the need for non-African countries to invest in the continent will be addressed at an upcoming symposium, "Integrating Africa into the Global Economy," at Cornell Oct. 25 and 26.
		The symposium is scheduled to coincide with World Food Day, the anniversary of the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
		The World Food Day Symposium is being organized by the Institute for African Development with support from many organizations both on and off campus, including Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center; the Cornell African Students' Association; Department of Agricultural, Resource and Managerial Economics; Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development; and the World Bank.
	www.news.cornell.edu /http://www.new/Chronicle/96/10.24.96/world_food_day.html (559 words)

	UNICEF - Press centre - UNICEF marks World Food Day with a focus on undernourished children
		World Food Day brings attention to the plight of the world's hungry and undernourished and provides an opportunity for a deeper understanding of the complex solutions.
		With this high-energy food, children only need to be seen once a week by a health worker to receive essential medicines, have their progress checked, and receive their week’s supply of ready—to—use therapeutic food.
		UNICEF is encouraging localized production of this vital therapeutic food, as it reduces the expense to less than three dollars per kilogram—putting the cost of food needed to save an undernourished child’s life to around 45 dollars.
	www.unicef.org /media/media_36163.html (691 words)

	About World Food Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		World Food Day is celebrated every year on 16 October to commemorate the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 1945.
		World Food Day aims to heighten public awareness of the plight of the world's hungry and malnourished and to encourage people worldwide to take action against hunger.
		First observed in 1981, each year World Food Day highlights a particular theme on which to focus activities.
	www.feedingminds.org /info/wfd.htm (207 words)

	World Food Day is October, 16, 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		October 10, 2006 -- The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the World Health Organization (WHO) celebrates World Food Day each year on Oct 16, the day the Organization was founded in 1945.
		The theme of World Food Day 2006, is “Investing in Agriculture for Food Security.” The organizers assert that only investment in agriculture-- together with support for education and health—will be effective against world hunger.
		World Food Day emphasizes that encouraging farming and strengthening infrastructure, the well-being of rural families would increase dramatically.
	www.globalhealth.gov /worldfoodday2006.shtml (274 words)

	World Food Day Holds Special Significance in 2005
		World Food Day, observed Sunday, October 16, takes on special significance this year.
		The contributing factors to large-scale food shortages are complex and interrelated.
		Join me this World Food Day in committing ourselves anew to the Millennium Development Goal of halving by 2015 the proportion of people who do not have sufficient food.
	www.care.org /newsroom/articles/2005/10/20051014_world_food_day.asp?sitewrapper=print (405 words)

	October 16 is World Food Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		On October 16 each year, the American Red Cross joins FAO to celebrate World Food Day as a chance for Americans and the international community to be part of the global fight against hunger.
		This year’s World Food Day theme is “Investing in Agriculture for Food Security,” acknowledging the need for agriculture to become a key player in world economies to avoid the devastating effects that hunger can have on a community.
		World Food Day aims to raise awareness about those who live in a constant state of hunger all over the world.
	www.redcross.org /article/0,1072,0_312_5701,00.html (959 words)

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