World Food Day October 16

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations marks World Food Day each year on 16 October, the day on which FAO was founded in 1945.  World Food Day was first held on 16 Oct 1981.

 

The 2014 World Food Day theme - Family Farming: “Feeding the world, caring for the earth” - has been chosen to raise the profile of family farming and smallholder farmers. It focuses world attention on the significant role of family farming in eradicating hunger and poverty, providing food security and nutrition, improving livelihoods, managing natural resources, protecting the environment, and achieving sustainable development, in particular in rural areas.