The articles, the opinions, the stories and the cartoons, Ovi magazine covers for Saturday 16th, 2021
World Food Day: A Call For Collective Action to Protect the Planet by Rene Wadlow
16 October is the U.N.-designated World Food Day. The date was chosen to mark the creaton of the Food and Agriculture Oranization in 1945 and located in Rome which had been the home of an agriculture institute related to the League of Nations. The Constitution of the Food and Agriculture Organization states as one of its aims “contributing towards an expanding world economy and ensuring humanity’s freedom from hunger.” Freedom from hunger is not simply a technical matter to be solved with better seeds, fertilisers, cultivation practices and marketing. To achieve freedom from hunger for mankind, there is a need to reduce poverty. The massive reduction of poverty must draw upon the ideas, skills and energies of whole societies and requires the cooperation of all countries.
World Citizens have played an important role in efforts to improve agricultural production worldwide and especially to better the conditions of life of rural workers. The World Citizen Lord Boyd-Orr was the first director of the FAO. An active member of the Association of World Citizens, Josué de Castro was the independent President of the FAO Council in the 1950s when the FAO had an independent Council President. The World Citizen, Rene Dumont, an agricultural specialist, is largely the “father” of political ecology in France, having been the first Green Party candidate for the French Presidency in 1974.
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Rustic Places #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“What will happen
When all the
Rustic places
Are gone?
The forest glens;
Gorges and gullies,
Rugged ravines
And singing wrens;
The clefts and canyons
Covered with poplars
And pines;
Their scent
Carried to
Heaven on
A gentle
Breeze.”
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Sceptic feathers 21#19 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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