Cardin, who FAO described as one of the world's top stylists for both women and men, has initiated 'a large number of humanitarian projects and public campaigns notably for the victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster'.

Colombian singer Fanny Lu whose music has topped charts in Latin America for the past three years, has been active in promoting World Food Day and the FAO TeleFood campaign to fund micro-projects around the globe, the UN agency said.

This year's World Food Day theme, 'achieving food security in times of crisis', highlights the critical plight of 1.02 billion people who are currently malnourished and the increasingly critical need in the current depressed economic climate to assist the hungry, FAO said.