World Food Day 2010

15 October 2010

Every six seconds a child dies of hunger. One in six people go hungry every day. On current trends half of all Africans will be chronically hungry by the year 2020.

Saturday October 16 2010 is World Food Day. It is a day to reaffirm our commitment to tackling hunger and recognise the efforts made at national, regional and international levels.

In pictures: tackling the food crisis in western Chad

All photos ©S.Hauenstein Swan/Action Against Hunger. Can't see them? View on Flickr

Reducing hunger, improving food security

Reducing chronic hunger and improving food security is essential to achieving progress in areas like health, education, and economic growth. As long as almost one billion people in the world go hungry, the challenge of creating a fair, peaceful and prosperous world will not have been met.

From fighting malnutrition in Niger and Chad to supporting research into climate change resilient crops, the Department for International Development (DFID) is working throughout the developing world to ensure that more people have the food that they need to survive and that their countries need to prosper.

Find out more about DFID's work to eradicate hunger:

One in every four children under five suffers from acute malnutrition in western Chad. DFID is funding Action Against Hunger to help respond to the food crisis	"I saw Mostafa's field flooded, and then I saw the rice recover. It was like magic." Find out how scuba rice - which can breathe underwater - is helping farmers in Bangladesh

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