Freedom from Hunger Campaign

Freedom from Hunger Campaign

Year
1963
Face Value
30
Mint Value
-
Used Value
-
Print Run
-
Themes
solidarity

Catalogs References

Michel
MR 200
Yvert & Tellier
MR 164
Stanley Gibbons
MR 161

Technical Details

Colors
Multicolor
Size
41 x 26 mm
Perforation
13
Designer
Claude Robert Ernest Durrens
Printers
Atelier de Fabrication des Timbres-Poste, Paris
This semi postal stamp highlights Mauritania’s participation in the global Freedom from Hunger Campaign (Campagne Mondiale Contre la Faim), an international initiative organized by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The clean, symbolic design depicts a stylized globe centering the African continent, accompanied by three ears of wheat reaching upward, framed by a sweeping crescent line. This imagery carries a powerful message of humanitarian solidarity, global cooperation, and food security. Within the Mauritanian national context, the stamp documents the new state's commitment to agricultural modernization and nutritional development, leveraging the postal system to raise public awareness and generate funding to combat poverty and hunger across the Sahelian zone.