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   HOLY FATHER'S MESSAGE TO FAO FOR WORLD FOOD DAY   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 15 OCT 2010 (VIS) - The Holy Father has sent a Message to Jacques   
   Diouf, director general of the United Nation's Rome-based Food and Agricultural   
   Organisation (FAO) for the occasion of World Food Day.   
      
   "The theme of this year's World Food Day, 'United against Hunger'", writes the   
   Pope in his English-language Message, "is a timely reminder that everyone needs   
   to make a commitment to give the agricultural sector its proper importance.   
   Everyone - from individuals to the organisations of civil society, States and   
   international institutions - needs to give priority to one of the most urgent   
   goals for the human family: freedom from hunger. In order to achieve freedom   
   from hunger it is necessary to ensure not only that enough food is available,   
   but also that everyone has daily access to it: this means promoting whatever   
   resources and infrastructures are necessary in order to sustain production and   
   distribution on a scale sufficient to guarantee fully the right to food".   
      
   "If the international community is to be truly 'united' against hunger, then   
   poverty must be overcome through authentic human development, based on the idea   
   of the person as a unity of body, soul and spirit. Today, though, there is a   
   tendency to limit the vision of development to one that satisfies the material   
   needs of the person, especially through access to technology; yet authentic   
   development is not simply a function of what a person 'has', it must also   
   embrace higher values of fraternity, solidarity and the common good".   
      
   "In this context, FAO has the essential task of examining the issue of world   
   hunger at the institutional level and proposing particular initiatives that   
   involve its member States in responding to the growing demand for food. Indeed,   
   the nations of the world are called to give and to receive in proportion to   
   their effective needs, by reason of that 'pressing moral need for renewed   
   solidarity, especially in relationships between developing countries and those   
   that are highly industrialised'".   
   MESS/VIS 20101015 (340)   
      
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