World Food Day came and went last Oct. 16 with hardly a whimper. Maybe this is due to the discomforting irony that on World Food Day's 24th year, 840 million people suffer from extreme hunger.
But in the Philippines the sector most affected by hunger--the peasantry--wasn't quiet. Hunger was the theme of the Oct. 15 World Rural Women's Day protest in Quezon City, which called for the resignation of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
The series of forthcoming peasant actions in observance of Peasant Week will also focus on the massive hunger in the Philippine countryside--where the country's food is produced.
Hunger and World Food Day