16 October 

World Food Day (WFD) is observed each year on 16 October to celebrate the founding of the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) in 1945. The aim of celebrating this day is to promote awareness and action for those who suffer from hunger worldwide and for the need to ensure food security and nutritious diets for all.

Some facts:

• 3.1 million people (about 40%) globally cannot afford a healthy diet,
• Globally women are 15 % more likely than men to be moderately or severely food insecure.
• Every day, more than 30,000 people are forced to leave their homes because of conflict.
• Two thirds of those experiencing high acute food insecurities are rural food producers.
• In 2021, some 193 million people suffered high acute food insecurity, requiring humanitarian help for the survival. While over half a million faced fatal outcomes meaning starvation and deaths. 

Leave NO ONE behind

World food day 2022 is facing multiple global challenges including the ongoing pandemic, international conflict and war, climate change, population migration. All these situations are resulting into rising prices and disturbed food supply and distribution. We can say that WFD 2022 comes at a critical moment for global food security. Too many people have been left behind.

WFD2022 with the theme Leave NO ONE behind is a call for us all to work together and create a better, more sustainable world where everyone, everywhere has regular access to enough nutritious food.

No one should be left behind.

Previous food days

World food day 2021

World Food Day 2020        

World Food Day 2019

World Food day 2018

Reference-

https://www.fao.org/world-food-day/about/en