| Politics of Hunger: World Foodless Day Observed |
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| Written by Kiki Hubbard | |
| Thursday, 16 October 2008 | |
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Today is World Food Day. At least to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). To others, it's observed as World Foodless Day. The Pesticide Action Network of Asia and the Pacific has made October 16 a day of global action to raise awareness about the root causes of the food crisis. Millions of people are organizing today to speak out against policies that they believe created and continue to fuel the food security crisis and global economic collapse. Ninety-nine national and international NGOs from 23 countries have called on the UN Task Force on Global Food Security Crisis to build measures into its plan that will adequately address the food security crisis. In India, an estimated 574,000 people are expected to observe World Foodless Day. And an Indonesian organization is mobilizing 4,000 people in protest rallies that highlight agricultural conflicts affecting the peasants in their country, asking for implementation of real agricultural reform. We've allowed food to be transformed from something that nourishes people and provides secure livelihoods, PANAP says, into a commodity for speculation and bargaining. Food riots continue around the globe despite there being enough food to feed people. "The immediate effects of the crises which include spiraling food prices gave a crushing blow to the working class including women, peasants, agricultural workers and landless farmers. World Food Day is a mockery and is much better named World Foodless Day," says Azra Sayeed of Roots for Equity in Pakistan. She adds, "We observe World Foodless Day to assert our food sovereignty and women's participation, to demand control over our natural resources including land, seed, and water and to reject trade liberalization which has forced millions of farmers to poverty." Source: PANAP
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  written by Adjoa Linda Fletcher, May 08, 2009
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adds, "We observe World Foodless Day to assert our food sovereignty and women's participation, to demand control over our natural resources including land, seed, and water and to reject trade liberalization which has forced millions of farmers to poverty."
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It's true what our moms said...we are what we eat. In fact, it's truer than they thought. What I eat doesn't just affect me anymore, it affects all of us.
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