A STUDENT campaign, which calls for a fairer global food system, provided shoppers in Basingstoke with plenty of food for thought.

Pupils from Bishop Challoner Catholic Secondary School joined volunteers and staff from the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) in The Malls shopping centre to help promote the agency’s ‘Hungry for Change’ campaign, which calls on the Government to take action on hunger by providing aid to small-scale farmers in developing countries.

Virginia O’Kelly, CAFOD volunteer and school librarian at Bishop Challoner, in St Michael’s Road, South Ham, said: “Currently, one in eight people around the world are going to bed hungry every night – yet there is enough food in the world to feed everyone.

“However, the way that food is grown, sold and shared out is not working for the world’s poorest people.

“With this campaign, we want to offer people the opportunity to make a positive difference and ask the Government to act so that 2013 can be the beginning of the end of hunger.

“We distributed our action cards to shoppers and asked them to add their voices to our campaign. The cards will then be delivered to Prime Minister David Cameron throughout the year to make sure our message is heard.”

Lynda Mussell, CAFOD manager for the Basingstoke area, added: “We have an unprecedented opportunity to tell world leaders, as they meet for the G8 in Northern Ireland in June, that we need them to put power back into people’s hands and change the global system so that everybody in the world can have enough to eat.”

To add your voice to the Hungry for Change campaign, visit cafod.org. uk/hungry.