World Food Day 2013: Sustainable Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition

The World Food Day theme for 2013 is “Sustainable Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition”.

The official World Food Day theme – announced at the start of every year by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) – gives focus to World Food Day observances and helps increase understanding of problems and solutions in the drive to end hunger.

World Food Day is celebrated every year around the world on October 16

Today almost 870 million people worldwide are chronically undernourished. Unsustainable models of development are degrading the natural environment, threatening ecosystems and biodiversity that will be needed for our future food supply. Calls for profound changes in our agriculture and food systems are becoming more frequent and more insistent.

World Food Day 2013 is an opportunity to explore these and other questions, and help bring about the future we want.

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 of the United Nations in 1945.

The day is celebrated widely by many other organizations concerned with food security, including the World Food Programme.

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