Special Feature
World Food Day
World Food Day was proclaimed in 1979 by the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). It marks the date of the founding of FAO in 1945. The aim of the Day is to heighten public awareness of the world food problem and strengthen solidarity in the struggle against hunger, malnutrition and poverty. In 1980, the General Assembly endorsed observance of the Day in consideration of the fact that "food is a requisite for human survival and well-being and a fundamental human necessity."
(Source: Department of State / IIP Digital)
OFFICIAL TEXTS
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Secretary Clinton’s Remarks at the World Food Program - USA Awards Ceremony (Source: Department of State, October 3, 2012)
SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you. Thank you so much. Halima, please tell all of the women in the valley how proud I am of them and what they are doing, and thank them for taking such good care of that sweet pepper plant – (laughter) – so it would have a good yield. And thank you for coming to be with us for this event today, because really what you represent and what you just said is so important to us to know that our efforts are helping you make a difference.
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Clinton at 2012 World Food Prize Ceremony (Source: Department of State, IIP Digital, June 12, 2012)
SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you. Thank you, all. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. And this is an occasion that we look forward to every year because of the importance of the work that is done to merit such a distinguished prize. And I want to thank you, Jonathan, for leading our efforts here at the State Department, and Ambassador Quinn for your continued leadership on behalf of this very pressing issue.
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Secretary Clinton on Global Food Security (Source: Department of State, IIP Digital, May 19, 2012)
SECRETARY CLINTON: Oh, thank you all. Thank you. Thank you. Well, that was really a wonderful introduction from someone who I’ve had the great pleasure of working with on a number of important issues and am delighted to be working so closely with Senator Lindsey Graham again, as he is the ranking member on the Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee. And I’m so appreciative of his strong support of America’s development and diplomatic efforts around the world.
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Obama Urges G8 to Next Step in World Food Security (Source: Department of State, IIP Digital, May 18, 2012)
Washington — President Obama announced a plan to accelerate investments in developing world agriculture to meet rising food demands and improve nutrition, calling the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition a moral, economic and security imperative.
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Malawian Dairy Farmers Receive Major U.S. Grant (Source: Department of State, IIP Digital, June 19, 2012)
Washington — The U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF) June 15 announced a $1 million investment grant to Malawi’s dairy sector at the 11th U.S.-Sub-Saharan African Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum, also known as the AGOA Forum.
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USDA’s Aid Programs Will Feed Nearly 10 Million (Source: Department of State, IIP Digital, April 03, 2012)
Washington — International food assistance in fiscal year 2012 will benefit more than 9.7 million people worldwide under the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food for Progress and McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition programs, USDA says.
RESOURCES AVAILABLE AT THE ACK
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Book: Americans in Agriculture : Portraits of Diversity Show More [GPO, 1990]
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Book: The End of Poverty [The Penguin Press, 2005]
The author has advised an extraordinary range of world leaders and international institutions on the full range of issues related to creating economic success and reducing the world’s poverty and misery. Now, at last, he draws on his entire twenty-five-year body of experience to offer a thrilling and inspiring big-picture vision of the keys to economic success in the world today and the steps that are necessary to achieve prosperity for all. Marrying vivid eyewitness storytelling to his laserlike analysis, Jeffrey Sachs sets the stage by drawing a vivid conceptual map of the world economy and the different categories into which countries fall. Then, in a tour de force of elegance and compression, he explains why, over the past two hundred years, wealth has diverged across the planet in the manner that it has and why the poorest nations have been so markedly unable to escape the cruel vortex of poverty.
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Book: The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare [Pantheon, 1990]
For the first time in over twenty-five years. the issue of poverty -- and our failure to deal with it -- is back at the top of the policy agenda and on the front page of the news. In this magisterial overview social historian Michael B. Katz, examines the ideas and assumptions that have shaped public policy from the sixties War on Poverty to the current war on welfare. Closely argued and lucidly written. The Undeserving Poor transcends the barriers that have channeled the American discussion of poverty and wealth into a narrow, self-defeating course, and points the way to a new, constructive approach to our major social problem.
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DVD: Nutrition Super Pack
From calories to vitamin deficiencies and the digestive process, this Standard Deviants School series covers the food guide pyramid, amino acids, micro- and macronutrients, calories, obesity, and more. Help your class visualize how the body works.
VIDEO CLIPS
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World Food Program-USA Awards Ceremony (Source: Department of State)
Oct. 3, 2012: Secretary Clinton delivers remarks at the World Food Program-USA Awards Ceremony, at the Department of State..
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2012 World Food Prize Laureate Announcement Ceremony (Source: Department of State)
June 12, 2012: Secretary Clinton delivers remarks at the 2012 World Food Prize Laureate Announcement Ceremony at the State Department..
GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS
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21st-Century Agriculture (Source: Department of State, IIP Digital Publication, 44 pages)
Humanity's longest struggle has been to feed itself. This eJournal USA explores how 21st-century technical prowess and agricultural skill hold the key to feeding the growing populations of the future.
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U.S. Food Aid Reducing World Hunger (Source: Department of State, IIP Digital Publication, 40 pages)
It is estimated that some 850 million people around the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition. Through articles written by NGO representatives and U.S. government officials, this edition of eJournal USA describes some of the ways in which the United States government works through its agencies and in conjunction with international organizations and NGOs to provide food and assistance to save lives and...
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Overfishing: A Global Challenge (Source: Department of State, IIP Digital Publication, 46 pages)
As representatives from more than 100 U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) member countries meet in Rome February 24-28, 2003, they face a crisis in the ocean's fisheries that gets surprisingly little attention from the world's press. By FAO estimates, more than 70 percent of those fisheries are depleted or nearly depleted even as more and more of the world's people depend on those fish stocks for...
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