Global Campaign Against Hunger
Global campaign against hunger
In a context marked by the recent access to independence of several nations, as well as by multiple struggles across the world led by people in search of freedom, the fight against poverty is among the priorities of the international community.
The fight against hunger is a crucial issue that the United Nations has focused on for several years and for which it has examined and adopted several actions integrated into a vast program entitled “Decade for Development”.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), created in 1943 following the Hot Springs Conference, in the state of Virginia (United States), for its part, wanted to mark the year 1963, that of the 20th anniversary of its creation, with the launch of a global campaign against hunger.
This large-scale action is structured around major events: World Week Against Hunger, scheduled to begin on March 21, 1963, and a World Food Congress scheduled for June, where statesmen, scholars, thinkers and sociologists are expected to come up with measures capable of effectively combating famine and ensuring food security on all continents.
The week was preceded by a special assembly on “The right to eat as much as one is hungry” held on March 14 in Rome and which saw the participation of 29 world-renowned personalities including several Nobel Prize winners, as well as men of culture and thinkers.
This assembly published the “Manifesto on the right of man to eat as much as he is hungry” in which it advocates in particular an increased interest in the preservation of forest cover and the extension of irrigation.
The global campaign against hunger marks the desire of the international community to unite and develop a common and general strategy to combat poverty and support developing countries.
In a context marked by the recent access to independence of several nations, as well as by multiple struggles across the world led by people in search of freedom, the fight against poverty is among the priorities of the international community.
The fight against hunger is a crucial issue that the United Nations has focused on for several years and for which it has examined and adopted several actions integrated into a vast program entitled “Decade for Development”.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), created in 1943 following the Hot Springs Conference, in the state of Virginia (United States), for its part, wanted to mark the year 1963, that of the 20th anniversary of its creation, with the launch of a global campaign against hunger.
This large-scale action is structured around major events: World Week Against Hunger, scheduled to begin on March 21, 1963, and a World Food Congress scheduled for June, where statesmen, scholars, thinkers and sociologists are expected to come up with measures capable of effectively combating famine and ensuring food security on all continents.
The week was preceded by a special assembly on “The right to eat as much as one is hungry” held on March 14 in Rome and which saw the participation of 29 world-renowned personalities including several Nobel Prize winners, as well as men of culture and thinkers.
This assembly published the “Manifesto on the right of man to eat as much as he is hungry” in which it advocates in particular an increased interest in the preservation of forest cover and the extension of irrigation.
The global campaign against hunger marks the desire of the international community to unite and develop a common and general strategy to combat poverty and support developing countries.