Global Celebration of World Food Day
October 12, 2007| |
The global celebration of the Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) World Food Day is held annually on the 16th of October, the day the Organization was founded. This year's theme "The Right to Food" highlights the basic human right for every person to have regular access to sufficient, nutritionally adequate and culturally acceptable food for an active, healthy life.
The celebration will start at the FAO headquarters in Rome and it will feature speeches from the Presidents of Germany and Tanzania, and from the FAO Director General Jacques Diouf . A round table discussion on the "Right Way to Fight Hunger" will also be conducted.
For details of the FAO World Food Day celebration around the globe, visit: http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2007/1000677/index.html
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