World Food Day - October 16

 

World Food Day is celebrated every year around the world on October  16 in honor of the date of the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO) of the United Nations(UN) in 1945

World Food Day (WFD) was established by FAO's Member Countries at the Organization's 20th General Conference in November 1979

Since 1981, World Food Day has adopted a different theme each year in order to highlight areas needed for action and provide a common focus

Most of the themes revolve around agriculture because only investment in agriculture – together with support for education and health – will turn this situation around.

• 1981: Food comes first
• 1982: Food comes first
• 1983: Food Security
• 1984: Women in agriculture
• 1985: Rural poverty
• 1986: Fishermen and fishing communities
• 1987: Small Farmers
• 1988: Rural youth
• 1989: Food and the environment
• 1990: Food for the future
• 1991: Trees for life
• 1992: Food and Nutrition
• 1993: Harvesting nature's diversity
• 1994: Water for life
• 1995: Food for all
• 1996: Fighting hunger and Malnutrition
• 1997: Investing in food security
• 1998: Women feed the world
• 1999: Youth against hunger
• 2000: A millennium free from Hunger
• 2001: Fight hunger to reduce poverty
• 2002: Water: source of food security
• 2003: Working together for an International Alliance Against Hunger
• 2004: Biodiversity for food security
• 2005: Agriculture and intercultural dialogue
• 2006: Investing in agriculture for food security
• 2007: The Right to Food
• 2008: World food security: the challenges of Climat Change and Bioenergy
• 2009: Achieving food security in times of crisis
• 2010: United against hunger
• 2011: Food prices - from crisis to stability
• 2012: Agricultural Cooperatives – key to feeding the world
• 2013: Sustainable Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition
• 2014: Family Farming: “Feeding the world, caring for the earth”

The World Food Day theme for 2014 was Family Farming: “Feeding the world, caring for the earth”