World Food Day: Living with Hunger Pangs

[polly7]

World Food Day: Living with Hunger Pangs
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Posted 16 October 2011 19:59 GMT

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/10/16/world-food-day-living-with-hunger-pangs/

"According to the World Bank, nearly 1 billion people go to bed hungry around the world, and the rising food prices will make that number grow. Today, for the World Food Day, we put faces on those hungry families and hear their stories.

Video Volunteers from India have gone to the communities to bring to you the Hunger Video Project, focusing on how in spite of the growing economy, people are still going to bed hungry throughout their country.

The videos were produced for the launch of The World Disaster Report 2011, a joint collaboration between the World Food Program, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC.)The report aims to answer the fundamental question: “Why do one billion people across the world go to sleep hungry each night when the world is producing enough food for everyone?”

[emilyg]

1. Thank you for posting.

[EFerrari]

2. The State Dept has been tweeting about this all weekend

WHILE they pitch GMOs and Monsanto all over the globe.

[flvegan]

3. Some say...

If we fed people the food we feed to animals to feed the few, we could feed the world.

The world might be producing it, but it's not allocated properly.

Flame on, kids.