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17/10/22 10:04 AM IST

World Food Day 2022

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  • Every year on October 16 in observance of the date the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations was established in 1945, World Food Day is marked.
World Food Day
  • The 16th of October 2022, a Sunday, will once again serve as the day for World Food Day 2022 celebrations.
  • The theme for World Food Day 2022 is Leave NO ONE behind.
  • “Safe food now for a healthy tomorrow” was the theme of World Food Day in 2021.
  • The day is celebrated with an emphasis on the production and consumption of secure food that will, in the long run, benefit the population, the economy, and the environment.
Significance 
  • It is observed annually to address the problem of global hunger.
  • The day is also observed by organisations like World Food Programme (Was awarded nobel peace prize 2020) and International Fund for Agricultural Development.
  • It emphasises on the Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2) i.e. Zero Hunger.
Status of Hunger 
  • More than the 785 million individuals that were counted in 2015, 821 million people suffer from chronic undernourishment.
  • The majority of undernourished people—nearly 99%—live in developing countries.
  • Women make up over 60% of the world’s hungry population.
  • One in five deliveries occur without the assistance of a trained birth attendant.
  • Every year, almost 20 million babies are delivered to low birth weight mothers; 96.5% of these babies are born in developing nations.
  • Undernutrition causes almost 50% of all paediatric fatalities in children under the age of five.
Source- The Hindu 

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