我们先来了解一下相关情况

世界粮食日英语是：World Food Day，英文缩写为WFD，是世界各国政府每年在10月16日围绕发展粮食和农业生产举行纪念活动的日子。

世界粮食纪念日，是在1979年11月举行的第20届联合国粮食及农业组织（简称“联合国粮农组织”）大会决定：1981年10月16日为首次世界粮食日纪念日。

此后每年的这个日子都要为世界粮食日开展各种纪念活动。

１０月１６日是第２９个世界粮食日。联合国粮食及农业组织（简称粮农组织）将今年世界粮食日的主题定为“应对危机，实现粮食安全”。粮农组织公布的数据显示，目前全世界人口约为６７亿，２００８年全球营养不良人数已达９．１５亿。今年年初以来，由于金融危机和食品价格暴涨等因素影响，饥饿人口上升到１０．２亿，比２００８年增加了１１％。这意味着全球约1/6的人口正在遭受饥饿的威胁。图为10月15日，示威者身穿黑色衣服、手持空盘子在巴黎歌剧院前抗议。他们此举是为了呼吁人们关注世界上的饥民。

今天是2009年的世界粮食日，我们来看看相关的英文报道：

World Food Day: The world is hungry

At a time when the global economic crisis dominates the news, the world needs to be reminded that not everyone works in offices and factories. The crisis is stalking the small-scale farms and rural areas of the world, where 70 percent of the world's hungry live and work.

With an estimated increase of 105 million hungry people in 2009, there are now 1.02 billion malnourished people in the world, meaning that almost one sixth of all humanity is suffering from hunger.

 

Both public and private investments are needed, more specifically through targeted public investment to encourage and facilitate private investment, especially by farmers themselves.

On the occasion of World Food Week and World Food Day 2009, let us reflect on those numbers and the human suffering behind them. Crisis or no crisis, we have the know-how to do something about hunger. We also have the ability to find money to solve problems when we consider them important. Let us work together to make sure hunger is recognized as a critical problem, and solve it. The World Summit on Food Security proposed by FAO for November 2009 could be fundamental for eradicating hunger.