"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 RodrÃguez Maradiaga, President of Caritas Internationalis
and Kristalina Georgieva , European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian
Aid and Crisis Response.