WORLD FOOD DAY

Dec. 29, 2018

World Food Day 2018 was celebrated all over the world with theme ‘Our actions are our future – A zero hunger world by 2030 is possible’.

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World Food Day is celebrated every year around the world on 16 October in honour of the date of the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations in 1945.
View of FAO on global hunger:
- After a period of decline, world hunger is on the rise again. According to the latest FAO 2018 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report, over 820 million people are suffering chronic undernourishment.
- While millions go hungry, 672 million people suffer from obesity, and a further 1.3 billion are overweight.
- Conflict, extreme weather events linked to climate change, economic slowdown and rapidly increasing overweight and obesity levels are reversing progress made in the fight against hunger and malnutrition.
- 70 percent of the world's poor live in rural areaswhere people’s lives depend on agriculture, fisheries or forestry. That’s why Zero hunger calls for a transformation of rural economy.