Blog Action Day Update: Kabissa is now an official blogging partner!

In just two weeks nearly 1,600 bloggers from 80 countries have registered to take part in Blog Action Day on Sunday, October 16. This year’s topic is FOOD and as one blogger on the Blog Action Day 2011 site said, “…the topic is timeless…” 

Kabissa is now listed on the Blog Action Day Partners page as an official blogging partner. We appreciate the initiative and are proud to be a part of it. Please help us live up to the honour by contributing your post about food! 

And why is it important for you to write about food? What can we do without food? We can’t literally live without it yet 13.6% of the world’s population live without access to this basic and precious necessity.

There are the war-torn countries, the LDCs (Least Developed Countries) and the like that we hear about everyday on the news, but now even the middle and higher income brackets are starting to feel the pinch as a result of ever-increasing food prices.

Food is also highlighted by the First Millennium Development Goal (MDG), that seeks to eradicate poverty and hunger by the year 2015; as it cannot be ignored that without food people cannot be productive. This is largely evidenced in the LDCs as well. 925 million people are hungry. 925 million people is 13.6 percent of the estimated world population of 6.8 billion. (source: http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/world%20hunger%20facts%202002....)

However, not all matters food are dismal. Food is important to each of us for different reasons. There are those that make a living from food like farmers, chefs, and agricultural specialists. Others show affection through offering food for example mothers preparing meals for their families or lovers making that special dinner and yet others take comfort in food (this can be a bad habit, proceed with caution).

Food brings people together in most cultures around the world. Major decisions have been reached at over a meal, whether elaborate or simple, it matters not. Whole nations have staple foods that help define their identities and somehow serve to unite their people, think Italians and Pasta/Paella or West Africans and Cocoa, North Koreans and Rice.

There are many faces to food and that is where we all come in on Blog Action Day 2011. What face are you looking at? 

Please join the discussion on (or before) the 16th and share your views with others. Here are some easy ways to contribute:

• Register your own blog on the Blog Action Day website, upload a post on October 16 and tag it with #bad11
• Kabissa is already registered, so you can join us and post to the Kabissa Connect group (via web at http://kabissa.org/group/connect or by email to connect@groups.kabissa.org) 
• Post an update via Twitter or Facebook and along with the #bad11 tag mention @kabissa on Twitter and Facebook so that we can collect contributions from Kabissa members
• Forward this message to your friends and colleagues and encourage them to participate too!