What is World Food Day?

World Food Day is celebrated on 16 October.

World Food Day (WFD) is a day that countries around the world commemorate the development of food and agricultural production on October 16 every year. World Food Remembrance Day was decided by the 20th Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) held in November 1979 to commemorate the first World Food Day on October 16, 1981.

Since then, various activities have been held to commemorate World Food Day on this day every year.

World Food Day was established to promote awareness of agrifood production and to galvanize national, bilateral, multilateral and non-governmental efforts. Developing countries are encouraged to carry out economic and technical cooperation. Rural people, especially women and the most disadvantaged groups, are encouraged to participate in decisions and activities that affect their living conditions.

Raise public awareness of the problem of world hunger. Promote the transfer of technology to developing countries. Strengthen international solidarity against hunger, malnutrition and poverty, focusing on achievements in food and agricultural development.

World Food Day falls on 16 October.

October 16 every year.

Generate background. The people regard food as the sky", and grain has always played an irreplaceable basic position in the entire national economy. In 1972, a worldwide food crisis arose due to two consecutive years of unusually weather failures and a massive rush of grain from the Soviet Union.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) convened the First and Second Food Conferences in 1973 and 1974 respectively to draw the attention of the world, especially the Third World, to the issue of food and agricultural production. Urge countries** and peoples to take action to increase food production, distribute food more rationally, and combat hunger and malnutrition.

However, the problem has not been solved, and the world food situation has become more serious. It is against this background that the resolution on World Food Day was made.

Establish a purpose. Promote awareness of agrifood production and stimulate national, bilateral, multilateral and non-governmental efforts;

Developing countries are encouraged to carry out economic and technical cooperation.

Rural people, especially women and the most disadvantaged groups, are encouraged to participate in decisions and activities that affect their living conditions.

Raise public awareness of the problem of world hunger.

Promote the transfer of technology to developing countries.

Strengthen international and national solidarity against hunger, malnutrition and poverty, focusing on achievements in food and agricultural development.

World Food Day is on 16 October.

World Food Day (World Food Day) began on October 16, 1981, and is a day for countries around the world to commemorate the development of food and agricultural production on October 16 every year, with the purpose of arousing the world's attention to the development of food and agricultural production.

Every year, World Food Day is celebrated by international organizations, including FAO, countries** and civil society organizations.

World Food Day is celebrated on October 16 of this year.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) was established on 16 October 1945. As a result, the 20th session of the United Nations General Assembly designated October 16 as World Food Day in November 1979, which came into effect in 1981. The theme day was established to arouse the world's attention to the development of food and agriculture.

This is the day when countries around the world commemorate the development of food and agricultural production on October 16 every year. On this day, countries around the world should promote their activities around the theme of the year as determined by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

World Food Day is a festival for countries around the world to commemorate the development of food and agriculture. It is celebrated on October 16 every year.

Food has always been an irreplaceable foundation in the entire national economy, and the purpose of the early establishment of World Food Day is to arouse the world's attention to the development of food and agricultural production.

China is a large agricultural country with a large population, but the grain problem is still a prominent problem in the development of the national economy. Therefore, carrying out propaganda and education activities to love grain and save grain and oppose waste is a major matter that has a bearing on the national economy, people's livelihood, and social stability.

Every citizen should establish the concept that saving grain is glorious and wasting food is shameful, consciously start with himself, save every grain of grain, resist and oppose the act of wasting grain, and cultivate a good habit of being diligent and thrifty.

October 16 in the Gregorian calendar is World Food Day.

World Food Day is an annual day celebrated on October 16 by countries around the world around the development of food and agricultural production. 16 October was chosen as World Food Day because FAO was founded in 1945 on this day.

Participants from different sectors of the global food system use World Food Day as an opportunity to reflect on the huge role that food plays in our lives and how we can do better. Going from production to table is a very complex process. It involves a wide range of people and people, not just farmers and fishermen, but also scientists who develop and improve technologies.

the leading trader of agricultural inputs; Personnel engaged in grain transportation, storage and processing, as well as marketing activities. Of course, all people are food consumers, and the way they eat, obtain, and process food, as well as the number of children, determine the nature and scale of overall food demand.

Past Events

In 1996, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) set the theme for World Food Day as "Fighting Hunger and Malnutrition". In 1997, it was designated as "Investing in Food Security", with the aim of mobilizing world forces, increasing agricultural inputs, and enhancing the effective supply capacity of food.

The theme of World Food Day 2009 was "Responding to the crisis, achieving food security", which highlighted the plight of malnutrition for hundreds of millions of people around the world and the need to help the hungry in the current depressed economy.

On October 12, 2012, the World Food Day and the National Love Food and Food Conservation Publicity Week Office held a press conference in Jinan to introduce that on October 16, the World Food Day, the State Food Administration will launch an initiative for the first time among the vast number of food cadres and workers in the country, advocating voluntary participation in 24-hour hunger experience activities, so as to better alert the world to "do not forget the disaster year in the harvest year, do not forget to save the increase in production, and do not waste consumption".