The United Nations World Food Day will be recognised globally this Saturday 16 October and is an important day to remind world leaders that heavy investment in the planet’s food security is urgently needed, World Vision Australia said today.”One billion people suffer from hunger today and there are now danger signs that food prices are starting to rise again, threatening to push millions more people to the brink of starvation,” World Vision’s head of advocacy Martin Thomas... ...Read more »

Australian farmers will be vital players in the drive to secure the world’s food supplies, Federal Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Tony Burke said on World Food Day (Friday), while also stating his case for genetically modified food. World Food Day on 16 October each year marks the day the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations was founded in 1945. The day focuses attention on agricultural food production, heightens public awareness of the problem of... ...Read more »

The carbon and water footprints of Australia’s food and grocery manufacturing industry are being reduced to safeguard the nation’s long-term food supply, a new report by the Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) has indicated. Released today to coincide with World Food Day, AFGC’s Towards Sustainability report highlights that leading food and grocery companies are committed to more sustainable production while maintaining the high quality of Australia’s food supply in... ...Read more »

Australian food producers need to be wary of complacency to ensure the ‘clean and green’ image widely used to market Australian food remains accurate, a leading Australian contaminant scientist has said. Marking International World Food Day on Oct 16, Managing Director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment (CRC CARE), Professor Ravi Naidu, said that, despite excellent food regulation and safeguards in Australia, we and others... ...Read more »