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25000 people die from hunger every day

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30th Jan 07 - Rafiqul Islam Azad, The New Nation

Speakers at an international workshop in Chennai, India yesterday stressed the need for formulating an strategy at aggregate level to ensure food security across the globe.

They also called governments concerned for taking policy to ensure food for all in line with the Millennium Development Goal (MDG).

The four-day workshop on "Food Insecurity: A Great Threat to Human Security", organised jointly by International Student Young Pugwash (ISYP) and MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) was inaugurated by ISYP President Prof MS Swaminathan.

Over one hundred experts, researchers, academicians, agriculturists, lawyers, journalists, government officials and representatives from donor agencies and NGOs are taking part in the workshop.

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A number of keynote papers, relating to food security, its causes and curse, were presented at the workshop on the first day, yesterday.

Chaired by Prof MS Swaminathan, the inaugural session was addressed, among others, by Gian Pietro Bordignon, WFP, New Delhi, Omar Norman, UNDP, Colombo and Prof Venkatesh Athreya.
Prof Swaminathan said that creating employment opportunity is a major problem to ensure food security. He emphasised the need for taking community based measures to ensure food security in poverty striken countries.

Gian Pietro Bordignon told the workshop that a total of 25,000 people die from hunger and poverty everyday.

Three papers on Hunger Hot Spots in the World: Causes and Curse were presented by Dr Eric T Ferguson of the Netherlands, Dr Swarna S Vepa of MSSRF and Ms Chitra Jayanty of Naandi Foundation of Hyderabad at the second session which was chaired by Gian Pietro Bordignon, WFP in New Delhi.

Papers on Achieving UN MDG in the area of hunger and poverty elimination and Enhancing the productivity of Small Farms were presented in the third and fourth sessions by Dr George Frerks, Chairman of ISYP, Netherlands, Dr Rama Narayanan of MSSRF, Li Weimin of Institute of Agricultural, Economics and Development, CAAS, China, Dr Julina Swindell of Royal Agricultural College, UK and Ms Chitra Jayanty of Naandi Foundation of Hyderabad.

The sessions were chaired by Dr Wakana Mukai of ISYP in Japan and Dr M Velayutham of MSSRF respectively. N Parasuraman, Asian Board Member of ISYP among others, addressed the evening session.

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