Surinder Sud / New Delhi December 21, 2009, 0:37 IST

Even as the Copenhagen summit on global warming has concluded without finalising binding commitments to combat this challenge, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said the fisheries sector will be hugely affected by climate change, jeopardising food supply and livelihood of a large section of the world

Gavin Wall

Hunger is not only due to a lack of production; it is also a result of human-made policy choices. Efforts to reduce hunger will require a review of the way society is organised, its economic and social policies, the functioning of institutions and the allocation of resources.

Jay Naidoo

Good nutrition is the nexus point where food security, public health and environmental protection meet.

The recent World Food Summit in Rome clearly failed to do its job. It did well to focus attention on the risk of food price shocks of the magnitude experienced in mid-2008, which led to civil unrest in over 30 countries. Yet it abjured its responsibility to the vision of a world free from chronic hunger and malnutrition, especially child malnutrition.

Vani SKulkarni , Raghav Gaiha

United Nations: Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon observed a 24-hour fast in solidarity with a billion hungry people worldwide, his spokesperson Marie Okabe has said.