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Candlelight Vigil for World Food Day 2013

For Release Upon Receipt - October 14, 2013

St. Augustine


    ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad & Tobago – The University of the West Indies (UWI) St Augustine will join with the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) to observe World Food Day 2013 with a Candlelight Vigil on Thursday 17th October at 5.45pm at the Main Administration Building car park, The UWI St. Augustine Campus.

The FAO marks World Food Day each year on 16 October, the day on which the Organization was founded in 1945. This year’s theme is “Sustainable Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition,” giving focus to World Food Day observances around the world, to help increase understanding of problems and solutions in the drive to end hunger. Since 2003, The UWI has been lending its support to the observance of World Food Day worldwide, through the FAO Representative in the Office of the Representative in Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname, hosting Candlelight Vigils and lecture series.

The venue for the Candlelight Vigil, the Main Administration Building, is appropriate for the commemoration of World Food Day as it was the former administrative centre of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture (ICTA). For 37 years this college was responsible for training hundreds of students from various parts of the world in tropical agriculture. In 1960 it became the nucleus of the Faculty of Agriculture at The UWI.

For further information please please visit  http://www.fao.org/world-food-day/home/en/ or contact Ms Sarojini Ragbir, Coordinator, Agricultural Economics & Extension, at 662-2002 ext.82075, or sarojini.ragbir@sta.uwi.edu.

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