The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday October 16th, 2023 – World Food Day
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.
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Cursed Prophecies (Second Threshold) #poem & #ArtInstallation by Amir Khatib
“As you grow, death grows with you!
There’s nothing really scary,
Make it easy for you!
All you have to do is wait,
As you waited for your future with mystical joy to grow with you,
As if you will have what you dreamed of and rushed to be happy.”
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Always something; the family edition #72 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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