THE WORLD FOOD DAY

World Food Day was proclaimed in 1979 by the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). It marks the date of the founding of FAO in 1945. The aim of the Day is to heighten public awareness of the world food problem and strengthen solidarity in the struggle against hunger, malnutrition and poverty. In 1980, the General Assembly endorsed observance of the Day in consideration of the fact that "food is a requisite for human survival and well-being and a fundamental human necessity"

Therefore every year, on October 16^th the world commemorates this day. This year round, the global change Tanzania 2010, intends to attend this day at the Blue peal in Ubungo plaza on this coming Saturday under the umbrella of Action aid Tanzania. Unfortunately this is a closed event not open to the public but the media and different Tanzania government officials will be present.

The theme of the day will be “land grabbing”, this theme being very much in line with our campaign, we intend to take advantage of the day to present a speech about our findings from the field and our message. As global change, we are against land allocation for biofuels investment in Tanzania until there’s a policy in place. According to our research and findings, the biofuels production in Tanzania right now is a threat to food security. We are hoping to drive our message to our main targets of our campaign that are the Ministry of Energy and minerals, Ministry for Agriculture and food security and the Ministry for land.

We are also planning to build a car model which we plan to present that day as a demonstration of how maize is used for fuel production to move cars while people are starving with no food to eat.

The global change Tanzania being the food right fighters and members of Activista, our objective is to also try to convince people that they can be the change that they want in terms of hunger alleviation by becoming food right fighters. We do not want to portray any negative image like being against the government.

As food right fighters we have the confidence in the Tanzania government that they can formulate a good biofuel policy that ensures food security. That is why as a way to show our confidence in the Government that day, we plan to present the three ministries with three future awards, them accepting the awards will be a promise to the Tanzanians that they will from now on punch hunger by producing the best policy that ensures Tanzania food security