PRESENTED BY:-Lakendra Singh Maurya12BSFT020B.Sc.(H.)Food Technology

SEMINAR ON

IMPORTANCE OF WORLD FOOD DAY

WARNER SCHOOL OF FOOD & DAIRY TECHNOLOGY

PRESENTED TO:-Prof. (Dr.) Ramesh ChandraDean (WSFDT)SHIATS

STAFF ADVISOREr. S.S.SinghAsst. Prof.Food Tech. Dept.

CONTENTSHistory

Objectives of world food day

Themes

Conclusion

Reference

World Food Day (WFD) was established by FAO's Member Countries at the Organization's 20th General Conference in November 1979. The date chosen -16 October - is the anniversary of FAO's founding in

1945. The Hungarian Delegation, led by the former Hungarian Minister of Agriculture and Food Dr. Pal Romány, played an active role at the 20th Session of the FAO Conference and suggested the idea of celebrating the WFD worldwide. It has since been observed every year in more than 150 countries, raising awareness of the issues behind poverty and hunger.

HISTORY

To increase public awareness about the problem of hunger and malnutrition.

Promoting agriculture and promoting farmers.To fight jointly with other Countries against hunger and

malnutrition.Exchange technologies to have better production.To encourage economic and technical cooperation among all

developing countries.Involve rural population

OBJECTIVES OF WORLD FOOD DAY

THEMESSince 1981, World Food Day has adopted a different theme each year in order to highlight areas needed for action and provide a common focus.

Most of the themes revolve around agriculture, because only investment in agriculture – together with support for education and health – will turn this situation around.

The bulk of that investment will have to come from the private sector, with public investment playing a crucial role, especially in view of its facilitating and stimulating effect on private investment.

LETEST THEMES OF WORLD FOOD DAY

2013: Sustainable Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition Healthy people depend upon healthy food system.

In celebrating Sustainable Food Systems, World Food Day is recognizing the need for systemic change to end hunger and malnutrition.

Systemic change is urgent because even though for decades the

world has produced one and half times enough food for every man, woman and child on the planet, nearly 840 million people go hungry while almost 870 million are undernourished.

Unsustainable models of development and uncontrolled population growth are degrading the natural environment, threatening ecosystems and biodiversity that will be needed for our future food supply.

Cont…

2014:Family Farmers: Feeding the world, caring for the earth

Family farming is linked to national and global food security. Both in developing and developed countries, family farming is the predominant form of agriculture in the food production sector.

It includes all family-based agricultural activities, and it is linked to several areas of rural development.

FAO defines family farming as a “form of organizing crop and forest production as well as fishery, livestock raising, and aquaculture, which is managed and directed by a family, which mainly depends on family labor of both women and men.

2015:Social Protection And Agriculture:Breaking The Cycle Of Rural Poverty

Social Protection has been chosen as the theme of this year’s World Food Day (WFD) to highlight its importance in reducing rural poverty and granting access to food or means to buy food.

Social protection programs enhance the income, status and capacities of poor and vulnerable people.

Social protection improves people’s access to health care and other social services, enabling them to sustainably provide for themselves and their family members.

Social protection provides greater income stability and ability to manage risk, thus contributing to reducing poverty and food insecurity in the longer-term.

About 73 percent of the world population have no access to adequate social protection . A majority of people without social protection live in the rural areas of developing countries, many of them dependent on agriculture to make a living.

CONCLUSIONWorld food day themes mainly helps

It provide the fair practices in food security.

It provide to protect the health of consumers and farmer’s.

To prevent the rural poverty.

It helps to social protection programs.

It not only aware people for taking good food, but also helps in identifying the problems in food supply and distribution.

REFERENCE www.fao.org/world-food-day

www.worldfooddayusa.org/ www.national-awareness-days.com en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Food_Day