Over A Billion People In The World Are Hungry, WFP Report Says

Today’s report issued by the United Nations World Food Programme claims that over one billion people in the world are living in hunger. The report also finds that world food aid has been at 20-year low. WFP’s report comes a month ahead of the World Food Day themed around...

World Food Day

October 16 is World Food Day, sponsored by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in order to highlight the plight of people around the world who do not have enough food to survive. The situation...

923 Million Malnourished People, World Food Day, October 16, 2008

A day after Blog Action Day 2008 on the subject of Poverty, here comes World Food Day on October 16. While I worry about Brie and Chardonnay versus tap water and yellow American cheese, the World Food Day homepage reminds us that some 923 million undernourished people in the...

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