Although the World Bank has heightened its focus on partnerships, there has been insufficient identification of best practices for working with the private sector to build capacity, invest in health and education, or to create environments with good governance, infrastructure and service delivery. The discussion, launched by the Enterprise Reform and Privatization Thematic Group of the World Bank and the World Bank Institute, will focus on how privatization programmes should be designed so that they can create beneficial social and environmental, as well as financial and economic, impacts. Anyone who has e-mail can subscribe to these discussion lists. Do not enter a subject. For additional information on these and other on-line discussions launched by the World Bank, visit the World Bank's pages .
Youth can make a significant contribution to fighting hunger and malnutrition around the world.
Yet action must be taken to improve their access to essential resources and services such as land, training and credit, so that these young men and women can be productive and innovative partners in achieving national food security goals. A study in Nigeria in 1992, for example, discovered that an increase in the average education of farmers by one year increased the value added to agricultural production by 24 percent. In addition, involving youth in programmes for sustainable rural development can serve both to slow the pace of migration to cities and to increase production and availability of food in the areas where it is most needed. FAO is underlining the potential of young men and women to achieve the food security by naming 'Youth against Hunger' as the theme of this year's World Food Day and Telefood campaigns . The annual World Food Day commerorates the anniversary of FAO's founding on 16 October 1945, and aims to heighten public awareness of the plight of the world's hungry and to encourage action on all levels to find solutions to the problem of global hunger.