"Future without Hunger "- Congress on Global Hunger

(May 23, 2012) Caritas Internationalis is hosting a congress on Global Hunger and Sustainable Food Security in the Austrian capital of Vienna on 1st and 2nd of June. Through this congress, Caritas is uniting people to start fighting together against hunger. According to estimates, 925 million people worldwide are starving and every 12 seconds, a child dies of hunger. Hunger is not a natural event, it has social, economic and political causes. Hunger is a global tragedy, more so because it is avoidable. Attending the two-day event will be public authorities and decision-makers, academics, journalists and civil society representatives from the whole world. The congress will discuss all the challenges to food security today, such as the chronic causes of global hunger, global agricultural trade, armed conflicts, the effectiveness of development aid, food price speculation, land grabbing and agro-fuel policies, climate change, food waste, sustainable lifestyles and food production. It will feature keynote speeches by Kofi Annan, United Nations Special Envoy and former UN Secretary-General, Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga, President of Caritas Internationalis and Kristalina Georgieva , European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response.