We can end hunger if
we focused on agriculture
Building power,
Growing communities, ending hunger
The first essential component of social justice is adequate
food for all mankind.” Please support to DASE Foundation Pakistan for provision
of Food to poor families. Today we have analyzed the crisis of food in South
Punjab of Pakistan.
World Food Day 2012
shines a light on agricultural cooperatives in particular, and their
contribution to poverty and hunger reduction. After all, of the nearly 900
million hungry people in the world today, 70 percent live in rural areas where
agriculture is the economic mainstay. An opportunity once a year (every October
16) to focus on one of the most persistent global challenges hunger. In a world
of mega supermarkets and fast food, there are still nearly one billion people who go to sleep hungry every
night. As World Food Day USA states, this “is the greatest atrocity of our
time.”
Today more than two billion people are chronically malnourished – lacking the very basic but essential nutrients necessary for their health and wellbeing.
And nearly 200 million children are stunted – meaning they are physically short for their age – due poor nutrition early in life, which impacts their health, development and long term productivity.
Today more than two billion people are chronically malnourished – lacking the very basic but essential nutrients necessary for their health and wellbeing.
And nearly 200 million children are stunted – meaning they are physically short for their age – due poor nutrition early in life, which impacts their health, development and long term productivity.
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