A child that dies from famine is murder...

...not my words but those of of Jean Ziegler, U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food. I couldn't help but agree more with his analysis of the problem which he provided in a heated debate discussing progress towards the U.N.'s Millenium Development Goals in Geneva last month. The first of these goals is to halve the number of people living in poverty and hunger by 2015 but, what a surprise, things aren't going too well. The excesses of the rich, subsidised north were again brought to light: the world produced enough food to feed 12 billion people last year (twice the world's population) but 854 million people still go hungry every day.

I urge those concerned to particpate in a new campaign recently launched by ActionAid, HungerFREE.

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