World Food Day

Most of the food we talk about on here are recipes, restaurants, or just for fun. On the other hand, today is World Food Day, the annual day held to promote awareness of hunger and poverty around the globe. This day is observed each October 16th in recognition of the first founding of UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 1945.

World Food Day planning is done at the community level. Individual groups can hold a special event, but the most successful events happen when organizers work together with affiliates of national sponsors. These people share ideas that will involve schools, businesses, worship centers, government offices, service groups, and the media.

People may wonder why they should get involved. Each person who cares, and becomes involved, helps build a more food-secure world. A society where everyone has the necessities, food and water, is offering hope that one day they will have other blessings.

According to the World Food Day website, The World Food Day and TeleFood theme for 2007 is "The Right to Food".

They also state that the right to food is the inherent human right of every woman, man, girl and boy, wherever they live on this planet. The choice of The Right to Food as the theme for 2007 World Food Day and TeleFood demonstrates increasing recognition by the international community of the important role of human rights in eradicating hunger and poverty, and hastening and deepening the sustainable development process.