- World Food Day is celebrated every year on 16 October to save the world from malnutrition and starvation.
- Through Food Day, human development focuses on issues related to unemployment, poverty and food security.
- On this day, many types of food related programs are organized to create awareness at various places.
- This day commemorates the establishment of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
- FAO was established on October 16, 1945.
- This year the theme of World Food Day has been ‘Water is life, water is food, leave no one behind’.
- FAO had announced to celebrate this day in the year 1979.
