2015年10月22日VOA聽力：2015年天下食糧日 號令清除饑餓
October 16th is World Food Day, a day of actionagainst hunger.
The date commemorates the founding in 1945 of theUnited Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, orFAO.
On this day, people around the world come togetherto declare their commitment to eradicate hungerin our lifetime.
Over the past decade or so, we have seen a great reduction of people living with hunger on anearly daily basis.
Back then, about one in six people went to bed hungry most nights.
Now it's about one in every nine.
Nonetheless, that still leaves some 795,000 thousand chronically hungry people around theworld.
Of these, 60 percent are women, and this despite the fact that most small farmers living in thedeveloping world are women.
And when women go hungry, so, all too often, do children.
About 161 million kids under the age of five are malnourished.
This means that their brains won't develop normally, they may have difficulties learning, andtheir physical and cognitive growth is stunted.
Lack of nutrition compromises not only their own success in the future, but also thedevelopment of the communities, economies and countries in which they live.
In addition to those children who are chronically undernourished, almost 5 million childrenunder the age of 5 die of malnutrition-related causes every year.
The global community is working to eradicate hunger, because it is the right thing to do.
The first of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, called for halving the proportionof people suffering from hunger and facing extreme poverty.
We have achieved that goal.
As we transition to a sustainable development agenda for 2030,we have raised our ambitionsand are striving to effectively end hunger and extreme poverty altogether.
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