Xinhua: Climate change and bioenergy are the focus of this year's World Food Day activities, expected to involve over 150 countries, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Friday. FAO celebrates World Food Day each year on Oct. 16, the day on which the Organization was founded in 1945."Global warming is already underway and adaptation strategies are now a matter of urgency, especially for the most vulnerable poor countries. Hundreds of millions of small-scale farmers, fishers and forest-dependent people will be worst hit by climate change," said Alexander Mueller, FAO Assistant Director-General for Natural Resources Management and Environment Department.
"Adaptation strategies, especially for the most vulnerable poor countries, where most of the over 920 million hungry people live, need to be urgently developed, reviewing land use plans, food security programs, fisheries and forestry policies to protect the poor from climate change," said Mueller….
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