October 16 is World Food Day

Celebrate World Food Day by acting to end hunger.

Pick an action that is right for you

Feeding minds fighting hunger

Students and teachers from all over the world will come together on October 16th - and throughout the year - to discuss lessons and look at ways to participate in activities and raise aware.
[Find out more at Feeding Minds Fighting Hunger - a global education initiative]

World Food Day Teleconference

Power of the People: Bottom Up Solutions to Hunger

Monday, October 16th, from noon to 3:00 p.m., Eastern Time. Three international leaders with hands on experience and knowledge about these “home grown” endeavors will share information about these global citizen activists: Eva Clayton (former congresswoman from North Carolina) who has just retired as Associate Director-General and director of the International Alliance Against Hunger for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN; Dr. Makanjuola Olaseinde Arigbede of Nigeria, a full time development activist who trained as a doctor of medicine; and Dr. Deepa Narayan, of India, who is senior adviser in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management of the World Bank, and author and team leader of the Voices of the Poor initiative. Ray Suarez will host. [Learn more]

Eva Clayton

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) member and collaborator with Presbyterian Hunger Program on the 2007 North Carolina Hunger Summit

Eva Clayton, a native of Savannah, Georgia, was the first African-American woman to be elected to Congress from North Carolina and was named the “Most Influential Newcomer” to the 103rd Congress. She left Congress after five terms to become Associate Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN where she served as a special advisor on World Food Summit Follow-up. During her tenure at FAO she launched the International Alliance Against Hunger, a comprehensive initiative designed to engage all sectors of society in creating a political force to end hunger. Ms. Clayton holds a B.S. degree from Johnson C. Smith University and a M.S. degree from North Carolina Central University. She attended law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [Read the bios of the two other leaders]

World Food Day 2006 Video

Agriculture must play a starring role on the world stage if we are to bring down the curtain on hunger. Yet foreign aid for agriculture and rural development has continued to decline. From a total of over US$9 billion per year in the early 1980s, it fell to less than US$5 billion in the late 1990s. Meanwhile, an estimated 854 million people around the world remain undernourished. (In Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Italian, Spanish) [Download and watch this 30 second video]