In Afghanistan, representatives of Ministries, embassies, UN agencies, International Financial Organizations, National and International NGOs and FAO staff have attended the World Food Day ceremony.
And that is why we call on you to join the movement for Seed Freedom and Food Freedom, particularly in the Fortnight of Action from 2nd October, Gandhi's birth anniversary to 16th October dedicated to World Food Day by the United Nations.
Successfully achieving food security in the long term, ultimately, can only be done through food rights and food workers' unions."The same message was spelt out by affiliates taking part in national events to mark World Food Day.
The official website of the World Food Day Month 2010 provides information about the current situations of the global food problem while introducing related events which you may find interesting.
The President of the Central African Republic inaugurated a bridge at Boda in the honor of the World Food Day; this facilitated the agricultural production area easily reachable.
Some 29 countries have also met the more ambitious goal laid out at the World Food Summit in 1996 when governments committed to halving the absolute number of undernourished people by 2015.
Call for an agricultural revolution"Business as usual is not an option," declared IAASTD Director Robert Watson, echoing the IAASTD's call for a radical transformation of the world's food and farming systems.
The Afghani representatives of embassies, Ministries, International Financial Organizations, National and International NGOs, UN agencies and the staff of FAO have attended the World Food Day ceremony held in Afghanistan.
We welcome in this regard the outcomes of relevant international fora including the Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO) High-Level Conference on World Food Security in Rome and the Tokyo International Conference for African Development(TICAD) IV in Yokohama.
We are determined to ensure fair and open markets, reduce price volatility, and establish greater regional and global food security and confirm our commitment to develop food markets infrastructure, reduce post-harvest losses along the entire food supply chain.
In 1996, at a World Food Summit organized by the UN, the USA refused to endorse a general view that it was everyone's right‘to have access to safe and nutritious food'.
The agency heads noted that of the 63 countries which have reached the MDG target, 25 have also achieved the more ambitious World Food Summit(WFS) target of halving the number of undernourished people by 2015.
Reflecting the key connection between cross-border investment and development and the fact that official development assistance alone is not sufficient to achieve global food security, we stress the importance of enhancing international investment in developing countries in a responsible and sustainable way.
We commend the leadership of the United Nations(UN) and Bretton Woods institutions in convening the High Level Task Force on the Global Food Crisis to establish the"Comprehensive Framework for Action", and urge the relevant stakeholders to swiftly implement plans to achieve prompt delivery for countries in need.
The Group will also support the High Level Task Force on the Global Food Crisis led by the UN Secretary General, and work with the international community in forming a global partnership, strengthening and building on existing institutions and involving all stakeholders, including developing country governments, the private sector and civil society.
We have tasked a G8 Experts Group to monitor the implementation of our commitments, and identify other ways in which the G8 can support the work of the High Level Task Force on the Global Food Crisis and work with other interested parties for the next UN General Assembly to realize the global partnership.
In light of the kinds of events we have been witnessing more frequently of late, such as the horrific floods in Pakistan last year and in Australia a few months ago, it is very easy to imagine that with systems concentrated in such intense, large-scale ways, these events could quickly escalate into a global food crisis.
In this regard, we reaffirm the important role and inclusive nature of the Committee on World Food Security and welcome the Rome Declaration on Nutrition and the Framework for Action. *8* We will devote resources to developing rural areas and sustainable agriculture and fisheries, supporting smallholder farmers, especially women farmers, herders and fishers in developing countries, particularly least developed countries.
The Special Rapporteur's policy recommendations echo much of the analysis set out in the IUF's 2002 The WTO and the World Food System, which analyzed the impact of the WTO rules and related trade and investment treaties in violating the right to food and proposed"a common agenda for a world food system that guarantees the right of all to adequate, safe and nutritious food while protecting and advancing the rights and livelihood of workers engaged in food production.
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