CELEBRATING WORLD FOOD DAY - 16TH OCT., 2018
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TODAY IS WORLD FOOD DAY!!!
World Food Day is a day of action dedicated to tackling global hunger. Held annually on 16th October, people from around the world come together to declare their commitment to eradicate worldwide hunger from our lifetime.
Celebrating the creation of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), events are organized in over 150 countries across the world, making it one of the most celebrated days of the UN calendar.
These events promote worldwide awareness and action for those who suffer from hunger and for the need to ensure food security and nutritious diets for all.
The focus of the day is that food is a basic and fundamental human right. Yet, in a world of billions, 805 million people worldwide live with chronic hunger, 60% women and almost five million children under the age of five die of malnutrition-related causes every day. The only way out is to increase food production that everyone can afford to eat a balanced meal at least 3 times daily.
One more thing is this, while ensuring that food is available, there is need to ensure that food is safe from farm to fork. According to World Health Organisation (WHO), 600 million people in the world fall ill after consuming contaminated food each year and of these millions of people 420,000 including children under the age of five years. In Nigeria, there are 70,000 cases of foodborne diseases and 3,000 deaths annually.
However, this calls for the general public including the farmers, food processors, food vendors, and consumers to conciously develope food safety culture so as to ensure that food poisonining is kept at bay at every point of the food chain.
On this day Safe Food For All celebrates all the FARMERS in Nigeria and in the world at large, Food Processors, New Product Development Experts, The Food Regulatory Bodies and Agencies, Researchers and Academia in Food and Agriculture, Nutritionists, Students in Agriculture, Food Security and Food Safety Advocates, Staff and Members of all Agricultural Programs (Component 1, 2 and 3). Keep making the land green and improving the Green Chain.
#WorldFoodDay
#ZeroHunger
#FoodSecurity
#FoodSafety
#SafeFoodForAll
Ensure you put a ☺ on someone's face today by offering a pack of food as a way of celebrating the World Food Day.
Sources:
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
• http://www.greeningtheblue.org/event/world-food-day
• World Health Organization (WHO)
Nutritious and well balance food free from contaminants are our God ordained right.
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Exactly! You are very right. Wealth is Health, Health is Wealth!
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Could there be means maybe an app where hotels, fast food restaurants, bars etc could communicate with people, maybe NGOs or bodies to make sure we reduce food wastage by feeding the poor? Because a lot of food is thrown away everyday while many children are hungry. Will safe food for all do something to close this gap?
ReplyDeleteThis idea is creative ...Food policy in Nigeria!
DeleteOh, wow! This is a great idea Daniel. Thank you.
DeleteHonestly, Safe Food for All will begin to give this idea a thought, as this could be a way of feeding the hungry children.
But I usually think that those food service establishments do not discard consumable foods rather they discard already spoiled foods. Is that not?
Yes is that! But the target should be to avoid them allowing the foods to spoil so they could be collected to feed the children. Communication is the key and an app could serve as a medium for hotels to communicate with your initiative.
DeleteOK. That will be good. I will look at that and see how it can work. Thanks for the suggestions.
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