With Love and regards
Reha Uzundere
Chairman
Leader of the world tourism
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It is possible to come out to light by blocking the insecurity and unemployment virus which nibbles the world economy and pulls it into the dark and dead well.
This system is present for all countries and the humanity. Think of a train going to richness and happiness, the locomotive of this train is tourism, and in its wagons, imagine the services which will be offered by the investor and thousands of people who will have jobs by benefiting from these services.
This train is a light navigating from darkness to light, it is the project of the century giving jobs to family and ending poverty. In this train, there will be businessmen from each professional group and investment packages.
We can achieve this project with the states and businessmen that I will be partners with. I am 58 years old, at the final of this system, what can my being the richest man of the human history make me gain further than serving the humanity, anyway. The stomach eats the food in the capacity it can take, nothing beyond that is possible.
The system is never political, it can never make any discrimation of language, religion, color, race and nationality, it is present for the humanity, it is present for the happiness and welfare of the world people.
Follow this light and never leave it.
Best regards,
Reha Uzundere
Chairman
4 September 2010, Rome - FAO and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today said that the number of hungry people in the world remains unacceptably high despite expected recent gains
that have pushed the figure below 1 billion.The new estimate of the number of people who will suffer chronic hunger this year is 925 million — 98 million down from 1.023 billion in 2009.
But with a child dying every six seconds because of undernourishment related problems, hunger remains the world's largest tragedy and scandal," said FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf. "This is absolutely unacceptable."
MDGs
achievement difficult
The continuing high global hunger level "makes it extremely difficult to achieve
not only the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) but also the rest of the
MDGs," Diouf warned.
"The achievement of the international hunger reduction target is at serious
risk," he added, further noting that recent increases in food prices, if they
persist, could hamper efforts to further reduce the numbers of the world's
hungry.
"Vigorous and urgent action by nations and the world has been effective in
helping to halt galloping hunger numbers," said WFP Executive Director, Josette
Sheeran. "But this is no time to relax. We must keep hunger on the run to
ensure stability and to protect lives and dignity."
Flagship
report
The new hunger figure is contained in the annual flagship report, "The
State of Food Insecurity in the World" (SOFI) to be jointly published by FAO and
WFP in October. The figure was released in advance of the September 20-22 Summit
meeting in New York called to speed progress towards achievement of the United
Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the first of which is to end
poverty and hunger.
Last May Diouf also launched a "1 billionhungry campaign" aimed at inciting
world leaders into taking firm and urgent action to end hunger. More than half a
million people have already signed an online petition calling on politicians to
make hunger reduction their top priority and a million are expected by the end
of this year.
Yukiko Omura, Vice President of IFAD, said, "the world's hungry are not just
numbers. They are people -poor women and men struggling to bring up their
children and give them a better life; and they are youth trying to build a
future for themselves. It is ironic that the majority of them actually live in
rural areas of developing countries. Indeed, over 70 percent of the world's
extremely poor — those people who live on less than US$ one a day live in rural
areas. That's a billion people, and four out of five of them are farmers to some
extent or the other."
Economic growth, lower prices
The 2010 lower global hunger number resulted largely from renewed economic growth expected this year particularly in developing countries — and the drop in food prices since mid-2008. The recent increase in food prices, if it continues, will create obstacles in the further reduction of hunger.
Of the eight Millennium Development Goals solemnly agreed by the UN in 2000, MDG
1 pledged to halve the proportion of hungry people from 20 to 10 percent by
2015.With five years to go, that proportion currently stands at 16 percent,
however.
Previously, in 1996, a World Food Summit had for the first time set a
quantitative target of halving the number of hungry people from roughly 800
million in 1990-92 to about 400 million by 2015. Achieving that goal would mean
cutting the number of hungry by over 500 million in the next five years.
Structural
problem
The fact that historically the number of undernourished continued to increase
even in periods of high growth and relatively low prices indicates that hunger
is a structural problem, FAO said. It is therefore clear that economic growth,
while essential, will not be sufficient to eliminate hunger within an acceptable
period of time, FAO added. But "success stories do exist in Africa, in Asia and
in Latin America," Diouf noted. These experiences need to be scaled up and
replicated.
Globally, the 2010 hunger figure marked a decline of 9.6 percent from the 2009
level. This reduction was mostly concentrated in Asia, where 80 million fewer
people were estimated to be going hungry this year. In sub-Saharan Africa the
drop was much smaller - about 12 million - and one out of three people there
would continue to be undernourished.
Key findings
Other key findings of the report included:
• Two thirds of the world's undernourished live in just seven countries —
Bangladesh, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia
and Pakistan.
• The region with the most undernourished people continues to be Asia and the
Pacific with 578 million.
• The proportion of undernourished people remains highest in sub-Saharan Africa
at 30 percent in 2010, or 239 million.
• Progress varies widely at country level. As of 2005-2007 (the most recent
period for which complete data was available), the Congo, Ghana, Mali and
Nigeria had already achieved MDG 1 in sub-Saharan Africa, and Ethiopia and
others are close to achieving it. However, the proportion of undernourished rose
to 69 percent in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
• In Asia, Armenia, Myanmar and Viet Nam had already achieved MDG 1 and China is
close to doing so.
• In Latin America and the Caribbean, Guyana, Jamaica and Nicaragua had already
achieved MDG1 while Brazil is coming close.
With Love and regards
Reha Uzundere
Chairman
Leader of the world tourism
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