Facts :

• World Food Day (Wikipedia)
  "The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations celebrates World Food Day each year on 16 October..."
  1 Origins
  2 Themes 2.1 Previous themes
  3 Issues for 2006 3.1 Background 3.2 Agricultural growth and hunger 3.3 The investors 3.4 Agribusinesses
  3.5 Promoting profitable partnerships 3.6 Legislation and controls 3.7 Investment climate crucial 3.8 Public goods and law
  4 Events 4.1 Europe 4.2 Africa 4.3 Latin America and the Caribbean 4.4 The Near East
  5 See also
  6 Links

• International Alliance Against Hunger (iaahp.net)
  "On 16 October 2007, FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) will celebrate World Food Day with the theme The Right to Food."

• World Hunger worksheet (CBBC)

• Does everyone have food ? (tiki.oneworld.net) - Lien modifié
  
  
  

Maps :

• Global Hunger (ifpri.org)
  
  

• Mapping nutrition and malnutrition (fao.org)
  
  

INTERACTIVE activities :

• World Food Day quiz (BBC)

Activities TO PRINT :

• Worksheets - 9 pages (unesco.org)

Lesson plans :

• UN: Hunger kills 6m children a year - a lesson plan
  with "a news article, listening (MP3 file), communication activities, pair work, discussion, reading and vocabulary exercises."
  (Breaking News English)
  
  
  Click on the picture

• Do Something about... Eating Healthy (lessonplanspage.com)
  "Students will learn about the differences in people's diets from around the world."

• World hunger - causes and solutions (BBC)
  
  
  
  

Games :

• FOOD FORCE :
  • Game to teach about world hunger : Food Force(BBC)
    
    
    
  • Food Force (BBC)
    "Pictures of the game designed to teach kids about world hunger."

    

   

Webquests :

• WORLD HUNGER: The Face of Starvation - a web quest
  "A focus on the development of viable solutions to the starvation problem in chosen countries is an excellent way to tie in acquired knowledge with creative problem-solving. Make sure to highlight the importance of creating solutions over the simple accumulation of knowledge...
  + Additional suggestions
  (web.olivet.edu)

• Do you mind our world ? - a webquest
  "The world is seriously in danger.
  There are many problems that make it every time more and more uncomfortable:
  wars, environmental problems, hunger, inequalities between poor and rich countries, etc.
  So, the president of your country has asked the collaboration of all the children to try to solve these problems..."
  (Isabel Perez)

Videos :

• Rugby against hunger (wfp.org)
  "WFP and the world of rugby are working together to highlight the Rugby World Cup's official humanitarian campaign, "Tackle Hunger".
  Clips include: visit by RWC winning captains to Swaziland school feeding project; Rugby Aid charity match for tsunami survivors in London (2005), Nick Farr-Jones in Indonesia."

• FAO: World Food Day (YouTube)

Cartoons :

• Poor nations
  (parish-without-borders.net)
  
  

• North Vs South - (absolutenglish-972)

  "Take a look at the picture Identify : - the type of document - the main characters - the main subject. Compare the characters, then the situation. Do the exercises on the comparative and superlative forms."

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"The world has enough for man's need, but not for man's greed." ~ Mahatma Ghandi