As we approach World Food Day on 16 October, Aquaculture without Frontiers is excited to announce that they have joined the Alliance Against Hunger & Malnutrition.
AAHM co-ordinator Marie-Christine Laporte said “The Alliance
Against Hunger and Malnutrition is a forward-thinking global initiative that
links like-minded organizations and institutions that are involved in the fight
against hunger and malnutrition.
“The Alliance Against Hunger and Malnutrition provides a
unique middle ground – a multi-stakeholder platform and forum where those who
run top-down and bottom-up development initiatives can meet in a neutral and
open environment, share ideas, learn from each
other’s successes and lessons, and establish networks for supportive
communication within countries, across national borders or with countries in
distant parts of the world.
“We are very pleased to have a dedicated
non-governmental aquaculture organization to assist our partners and
through them a devoted and effective aquaculture hub.”
The collaboration with AAHM was discussed with
the Aquaculture without Frontiers Executive Director and International Aquafeed
magazine contributor Roy Palmer, during a visit to Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations (FAO) offices in Rome, Italy.
Palmer said “The Alliance Against Hunger and
Malnutrition currently supports National Alliances in 60 countries on four
continents with combined populations of more than a billion people.
“We believe that the skills, knowledge and
experience of our aquaculture specialists and volunteers can have a great
impact in adding another dimension to the food equation for the various
partners.
“We are keen to build working relationships
and, through that unity, increase the chances of success in the aim to
eliminate hunger and malnutrition. We are believers that aquaculture can make a
difference.”
He added “842 million people in 2011–13, or
around one in eight people in the world, were estimated to be suffering from
chronic hunger, regularly not getting enough food to conduct an active life.
Almost all the hungry people, 852 million, live in developing countries,
representing 15 percent of the population of developing counties.
“According to the FAO there are 16 million
people undernourished in developed countries. In Africa the number of hungry
grew to 239 million, with nearly 20 million added in the last few years – meaning
that nearly one in four are hungry.
“In sub-Saharan
Africa, the modest progress achieved in recent years up to 2007 was reversed,
with hunger rising 2 percent per year since then.”http://www.aquaculturewithoutfrontiers.org/
http://www.theaahm.org/home/en/
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