Guest Author - Sandy Mullins

"Investing in agriculture for food security", this year’s theme for World Food Day celebrated every year since 1945 on October 16 the day the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations was founded.

Support for agriculture in underdeveloped countries is the way to bring down world hunger. Foreign aid has dropped drastically form $9 billion a year in the 80s to less than $5 billion in the 90s. Vast numbers of the world’s people are undernourished, an estimated 854 million.

Feeding the hungry along with education and health care are principle belief all Baha’is. We believe that by educating people, you can teach them to take better care of themselves, their family and the world. This in turn can help eliminate world poverty, hunger, prejudice and even possibly wars.

“On the one hand you have wealth, and great luxury; on the other hand men and women are living in the extremities of hunger and want. This great contrast of life is one of the blots on the civilization of this enlightened age.
(Abdu'l-Baha, Abdu'l-Baha in London, p. 91)

Remember as from the top of the FAO website: ”Invest in Agriculture for Food Security, The whole world will profit.”

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