October 16th is World Food Day.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) celebrates World Food Day each year to commemorate the founding of the Organization in 1945. Events are organized in over 130 countries across the world, making it one of the most celebrated days of the UN calendar. These events promote worldwide awareness and action for those who suffer from hunger and for the need to achieve Zero Hunger, ensuring food security and nutritious diets for all. World Food Day is a chance to call for greater commitment to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2: Zero Hunger, by the year 2030.
What can you do to help achieve this goal?
- Don’t waste food
- Produce more, with less (use more efficient farming techniques)
- Adopt a more healthy and sustainable diet
- Advocate for #ZeroHunger
Citizens need to adopt a new mindset by supporting local producers, using the Earth’s resources more wisely, following nutritious and varied diets, and changing day-to-day actions with the aim of reducing waste and taking on a more sustainable lifestyle. People have become desensitized and disconnected to the fact that millions of people are hungry. Having respect for our food means having respect for the people that give us food, the farmers, the resources that went into producing it, and those people that go without.
Find out more on how you can contribute here, and here to read the Global Report on Food Crises 2018.