Finding New Ways to Feed the World's Hungry Children (1/2)

October sixteenth is World Food Day. The campaign chosen for this year by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization is "The Right to Food." The aim is to demonstrate that human rights are increasingly recognized as an important part of ending hunger and poverty.

Worldwide, the United Nations says more than eight hundred fifty million people do not have enough food. Every year an estimated five million children under the age of five die of nutrition-related causes. When it comes to food aid, quantity is important but so is quality.

To help children at risk, the international humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders has launched a worldwide appeal. The group is calling for the expanded use of what is known as therapeutic ready-to-use food to treat severely malnourished children. It also wants this kind of food added to children's diets to prevent malnutrition from ever happening.

Ready-to-use-food is usually a sweet spread made with peanuts, dry milk, sugar, vegetable fat, minerals and vitamins. The food does not have to be mixed with water, which in many countries may be dirty. And families do not have to go to feeding centers. Individual servings come ready to eat.

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10月16日是世界粮食日。今年联合国粮农组织为这一天组织的活动叫“享有食物的权利”。其目的是为了表明解决贫穷和饥饿正越来越成为维护人权的重要组成部分。

联合国称全世界有8.5亿人徘徊在饥饿与半饥饿的边缘。每年估计有近500万不满5岁的儿童死于营养不良。当食品援助的时候，食品的质量与数量同样重要。

为了帮助这些深处困境的孩子们，国际人道主义组织--无国界医生在全球范围发起呼吁，希望推广使用被认为有治疗作用的即食食品来治疗那些严重营养不良的儿童。同时也希望这种食物能够加入到孩子们的每日膳食中从而将营养不良症状消灭在萌芽状态。

这种即食食品通常是包含花生，干奶酪，糖，蔬菜，脂肪，矿物质和维生素等物质的甜味酱。在一些卫生状况恶劣的国家这种食品不需要与水混合就可以食用。家庭也不需要再去救济中心，个人份的食品可以随时食用.