Bangkok, Thailand, 15 Oct 2014 – This year’s World Food Day (16 October) is celebrated across Asia and the Pacific with increasing optimism that the region could achieve the Millennium Development Goal on reducing hunger by 2015.
This was among the key messages delivered on the eve of World Food Day at a regional event in Bangkok to mark WFD 2014, convened by the Asia-Pacific regional office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
The theme of this year’s celebration is ‘Family Farming: Feeding the world, caring for the earth.’
AFA Secretary General Esther Penunia was one of the speakers in this event and was given an award by FAO, together with 5 outstanding farmers in the region. Click here for her speech.
Read the full article here: http://www.fao.org/asiapacific/rap/home/news/detail/en/?news_uid=260382
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