I have just noticed that today, 16 Ocober, is "world food day"! So really the right day for starting a blog on food!


The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization said this week that an estimated 1.02 billion people in the world are going hungry in 2009, and that this figure has spiked sharply as a result of the global economic crisis. Almost all of these live in developing countries, but some 15 million are thought to be in developed countries.

FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf said: “We have the economic and technical means to make hunger disappear, what is missing is a stronger political will to eradicate hunger forever.” He sees investing in agriculture in developing countries as key as a healthy agricultural sector and ensuring overall economic growth and peace.