World Food Day 2019: History, Significance, and Theme of Food Day; Celebration of the Day Worldwide

World Food Day is celebrated on 16 October every year over the world to honor the foundation date of the Food and Agriculture Organization propelled by the United Nations in the year 1945.

World Food Day is praised widely with extraordinary eagerness by a few different associations which are worried about food security, for example, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the World Food Program, and others.

These events promote worldwide awareness and activity for the individuals who experience hunger and for the need to guarantee food security and nutritious diets for all. The focus of the day is that food is an essential and crucial human right. However, in a world of billions, over 820 million individuals worldwide suffering chronic undernourishment, 60% women and very nearly 5 million kids younger than five die of malnutrition-related causes each day.

World Food Day History

World Food Day (WFD) was set up by the member nations of FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) in November 1979, at the association’s 20th General Conference and required the recognition of World Food Day on 16 October 1981.

This decision was confirmed by the UN General Assembly on 5 December, 1980 and asked governments and international, national and local associations to contribute to celebrating World Food Day. Since 1981, World Food Day has been held every year on October 16.

Dr. Pal Romany, the Hungarian Delegation led by the then Minister of Hungary for Agriculture and Food, played a significant role at the 20th General Conference of the FAO and proposed propelling the WFD around the world. From that point forward, the WFD is been seen in excess of 150 nations every year; raising awareness and information on the issues and purposes for hunger and poverty.

World Food Day 2019: Theme

Since 1981, World Food Day began receiving a distinctive celebration theme every year for featuring common areas of concern that required consideration and activity. The majority of the themes rotate around cultivating and horticulture, since it is been viewed as that lone interest in agribusiness alongside help for health and education, will have the option to turn this circumstance around. The greater part of such investment must originate from the private sector and public investment for promoting farming and alleviate the issue identified with food and hunger, for example, insufficiency of food, and so forth.

The theme of World Food Day 2019 is “Our Actions Are Our Future. Healthy Diets for A #ZeroHunger World”. It centers around handling global hunger. Because of globalization, urbanization and income development, our diets and eating habits are changed. Rather than seasonal, fiber rich food and plant based food we are moved to refined, starches, sugar, fats, salt, processed food, meat, and so on. It has been seen that in urban regions time spent on getting ready food or suppers is exceptionally less on the grounds that individuals nowadays depend on prepared mate food, supermarkets, fast food, street food, and so forth.

With the theme, the FAO means to bring one of the significant health problems to the table: Malnutrition. Malnutrition is frequently mistaken for undernourishment and hunger. However, it spans every aspect of nourishment including undernutrition, deficient vitamins, and minerals, obesity, overweight and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) that can be caused because of unhealthy food habits. Examples of such NCDs are diabetes, heart diseases, and stroke.

Because of unhealthy eating regimens and sedentary lifestyles obesity in individuals is expanding in grew, low-income nations. As indicated by FAO, 670 million grown-ups and 120 million girls and boys of the age group 5 to 18 years are corpulent and 40 million children under 5 are overweight. Around 820 million individuals suffer from hunger.

The brochure released by FAO to share the current year’s goals clarified that at present the world isn’t simply undernourished, it is malnourished. The brochure read, “Food security in our times isn’t only a matter of quantity, it’s also a question of quality. Unhealthy diets have now become a leading risk factor for disease and death worldwide.”

Why World Food Day is Celebrated

The chief purpose for propelling and celebrating world food day is to secure and propel the food security over the world, especially in days of the emergency. The beginning of the Food and Agriculture association by the United Nations has played a significant role in making this conceivable and achieving the goal.

The annual celebration of world food day represents the significance of the Food and Agriculture Organization; it additionally helps in expanding awareness of the significant requirement for effective agriculture and food policy strategies to be executed by governments over the world to guarantee there is adequate food accessible for everybody around the world.

World Food Day 2019: Celebrations

Different events are organized on this day. At FAO, headquarter in Rome, Italy program on large scale is organized. It mainly focuses on the consideration of food supply. Some UN Organizations and universities organize symposia, conferences, workshops, presentations on topics like food production, distribution and security.

India is a nation with various cultures and traditions. Celebrations have praised the nation over in various styles and habits starting with one state then onto the next. On this day, a few families preserve food and distribute it to needy and poor. In some privately owned businesses and Government associations, there is a plan in which salary is deducted from those workers who deliberately want to donate for the food bank and the gathered cash might be used at the time of natural calamities, disasters, etc.

How World Food Day is Celebrated Worldwide

World Food Day is celebrated through different events over the world. Few of the examples of events held in recent years over the world are as per the following:

How World Food Day is Celebrated in India

World Food Day was set up to pay tribute to the establishing date of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations propelled in 1945. Presently it is additionally considered as Food Engineers’ Day. In India, the day denotes the essentialness of farming and accentuates on the way that the produced and consumed by the Indians is protected and healthy.

The world food day is commended with an extraordinary interest in India; a few sincere lovers of food in Delhi held hands and pledged to protect their food hygienic and safe. They restricted the presentation of GM (genetically modified) crops in India. Individuals in Delhi praise the event at the Craft Museum of Dastakar Mela; they make rangoli and perform road plays and acts on the matter of genetic modification.

In India, World Food Day is the event, through which a few non-voluntary associations feature the significance of eating healthy food and staying away from fast food in urban India. Volunteers additionally organize road plays demanding public consultation on the BRAI (Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India) bill. It is one of the greatest risks to our food safety as it is being proposed to advance the presentation of Genetically Modified crops in India.

2019 World Food Day Celebration in the United States of America (USA)

World Food Day has been a custom in the United States as far back as it was set up for the first time in the year 1981. In the United States, this extraordinary work is supported by around 450 private, national and willful associations. Different occasions are been composed at these associations; one of such eminent examples for the festival is the World Food Day Sunday Dinners supported by Oxfam America in association with a few other non-profit associations.

Author Francis Moore Lappe and Emeritus Archbishop Desmond Tutu have collaborated with Oxfam America for advancing World Food Day Sunday Dinners. The Iowa Hunger Summit was held since 2007 around World Food Day; it has been organized by the World Food Prize in association with their yearly symposium in Des Moines, Iowa.

Celebration of World Food Day 2019 in Australia

Australia celebrates World Food Day to help poor individuals to battle hunger. During World Food Day and the days around it, a few Australians participate in Eat Local Feed Global organized by Oxfam. An affiliate of Oxfam International, Oxfam Australia is an Australian community-based, not-for-profit, independent and secular and development association. The works by Oxfam Australia incorporate proceeding with development projects that react to the crises and expect to improve the lives of disadvantaged individuals around the world.

Every year on the With World Food Day, a few Oxfam supporters plan for the Eat Local Feed Global feast and activities with the mean to help individuals battle hunger and poverty overseas. Eat Local Feed Global is held for expanding awareness about segregation in the food system globally and increment cash for life-changing work done by Oxfam.

How to celebrate World Food Day 2019 in the United Kingdom

Every year FareShare celebrates World Food Day denoting the significance of saving food and disposing of food wastage. FareShare is a charity association set up to dispense with hunger from the life of needy individuals. The association targets decreasing food poverty and minimizing food waste in the UK. Fareshare does this by preserving surplus food of good quality which would somehow have been wasted; the charity sends such food to more than 2000 distinct charities and communities over the United Kingdom for further distribution among the poor individuals.

Disposal of imbalance between hunger and food waste is at the focal point of FareShare’s work. Through World Food Day, Fareshare urges everybody to recognize that individuals having adequate food to eat and impacts everybody to make a move and help those individuals who need enough food to eat. There are numerous needy individuals in the UK who need to stress over their next meal.

Food saved through Fareshare arrives at the less special ladies, men and children who are the victims of natural calamity, mishaps, war veterans, victims of domestic violence. Fareshare additionally helps individuals living below the poverty line, homeless individuals, individuals battling against drug and alcohol addiction, older individuals experiencing isolation, and low income individuals who battle every day to arrange food.

How World Food Day 2019 is Celebrated in Canada

In Canada, the greatest World Food Day event is celebrated in Langley, British Columbia organized by society ‘Food for Famine’ (FFF). FFF is a humanitarian society planned to spare the lives of those children who are under five years old experiencing SAM (Severe Acute Malnutrition)

Every year on World Food Day, Canada hosts a few world-well-known speakers and opens the door to various exhibitors. Numerous individuals join the development and appreciate a comprehensive and stimulating knowledge on various topics incorporating new progression in horticulture, activities identified with solving poverty and world hunger and a lot more issues identified with food security and healthy dieting. Members appreciate complimentary lunch and different exercises.

World Food Day 2019 Celebration in Europe

On World Food Day, Spanish TV gets active with the telecom events. Spanish soccer star and the Goodwill Ambassador of FAO, Raul has participated in numerous occasions and has helped in featuring food-security issues all through his nation. In Germany, Food and Agriculture Ministry, Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection, and so on get included through press conferences.

In Italy, different NGOs, international agencies, research institutes, universities, and ministries have organized a few conferences, exhibitions and symposia. In 2005, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Policies in Italy organized a meeting that concentrated on the rights of the ladies in rural zones.

The UK Food Group has likewise stayed active through media broadcasts and conferences. Hungary celebrates World Food Day by welcoming recognized specialists to deliver presentations in the Hungarian Agricultural Museum and Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Day awards have been given to famous Hungarian specialists by the Sub-Regional agent of the FAO. Different activities are held in the rising economies of Eastern Europe including nations, for example, Slovak Republic, Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia, Moldova, Hungary, Georgia, Czech Republic, Croatia, Armenia, and Albania.