China: Poverty challenged

The Chinese government will enact more support policies to lift the country's 70 million poor people above the poverty line by 2020, President Xi Jinping pledged on Friday ahead of the 23rd International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.

Sustainable food systems vital to end hunger, malnutrition, UN says on World Food Day.

UN, 16 October 2013 – Efficient, well-managed and sustainable food systems are essential to end hunger and malnutrition as well as protect the environment, United Nations officials stressed today, marking World Food Day.
“The key to better nutrition, and ultimately to ensuring each person’s right to food, lies in better food systems – smarter approaches, policies and investments encompassing the environment, people, institutions and processes by which agricultural products are produced, processed and brought to consumers in a sustainable manner,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his message for the Day.

“Every day, more than 840 million people go hungry in a world of plenty. This fact alone should be cause for moral outrage and concerted action.”
The theme of this year’s Day, which is celebrated on 16 October in honour of the date of the founding of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 1945, is “Sustainable Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition.”

Food waste, diets in focus on U.N. World Food Day...

AFP, Rome

Conflicts around the world mean there must be no “donor fatigue,” the head of the World Food Programme told AFP in an interview, as the United Nations marks World Food Day on Wednesday.
Ertharin Cousin warned aid funds were running out for forgotten but ongoing humanitarian crises like North Korea or Yemen, as money shifts to conflicts such as Syria, where the media attention is stronger.
“There is no room for donor fatigue,” Cousin said at the U.N. food aid agency's headquarters in Rome.
“The biggest challenge is ensuring we don't forget conflicts that are beyond the attention of the media,” said the Chicago native and ex-official in US president Bill Clinton's administration.