World Food Day 2024 is approaching

By: Trademagazin Date: 2024. 10. 11. 12:15

The cooperation that spans more than 150 countries around the world is what makes World Food Day, which was born on Hungarian initiative, stand out from other UN days. The aim of the countless events is to draw attention to it and encourage action to eradicate quantitative and qualitative hunger. In 2024, the #WorldFoodDay will focus on food as a human right. The global campaign is loudly proclaiming around the world that everyone should have access to nutritious, safe and sustainable food at an affordable price. Now is the time to come together to create a better and more sustainable future for everyone.

At the same time, World Food Day draws the attention of governmental, corporate and civil society actors to the food problems affecting the majority of humanity, and in order to mobilize the population, especially young people, to take joint action.

Around 733 million people worldwide are hungry.
32% of the food produced on our planet ends up in the trash or is wasted in other ways, the waste also has a significant impact on climate change.

Conflict and violence are the main causes of prolonged hunger. In 2023, almost half of the severely hungry were affected by conflict: nearly 135 million people in 20 countries.

About 2.8 billion people cannot afford a healthy diet.

Compared to men, women are 1.3% more likely to be hungry.

Around the world, more than 1.6 billion women and children suffer from some form of vitamin or mineral deficiency.

The Budapest-based European and Central Asian Office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is preparing for World Food Day with the following events.

FAO-Food Bank donation convoy

On the morning of October 16, a convoy of nearly 20 trucks passed through the center of Budapest loaded with HUF 45 million worth of food donations. The action organized by the FAO and the Hungarian Food Bank Association makes life easier for Hungarian families in need through the products offered by Hungarian and international food producers and distributors. The vehicles will stop at Hősök square, where Viorel Gutu, FAO Deputy Director General, Balázs Cseh, President of the Hungarian Food Bank Association, as well as István Nagy, Minister of Agriculture, will receive them in a short press event, as well as István Pesti (Platán Gourmet Restaurant) and Dániel Bernát (Szaletly Restaurant and Garden) provide ideas for sustainable, healthy and seasonal dishes.