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World Food Day

Today, October 16, is World Food Day.  The theme this year is "achieving food security in times of crisis."

Also today, there is an organized effort to stand up against poverty at 1:02pm.  The time symbolizes the 1.02 billion hungry in the world.  This action aims to publicly demonstrate to policy makers the growing global support for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals which aim to halve poverty and hunger by 2015.

Posted by GiselleF on 16 October 2009 in Food Crisis |

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