AGRICULTURE NEWS - This year’s World Food Day, to be celebrated on 16 October, marks the 74th anniversary of the founding of the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO).
The theme is ‘Our actions are our future – healthy diets for a #zerohunger world’.
The emphasis is on governments increasing the availability and affordability of diverse and nutritious food.
According to the FAO, governments need to address malnutrition at its root cause, and that countries need to adopt nutrition-sensitive food production practices that focus less on high-yield and economically profitable varieties, and more on nutritional value.
While over 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger, more than 670 million adults and 120 million boys and girls (aged five to 19) are considered obese, and over 40 million children under five are overweight.
Read the full article here on the Caxton publication, Farmer's Weekly.
