For a world without hunger

Every October 16 since 1979, world food daywhich is a history promoted Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)with the aim of reducing world hunger.

History is incorporated into the organization’s purpose with the 2030 Agenda for Zero Hunger.

Each year, FAO focuses on a slogan to spread the World Food Day campaign. For 2022, the motto is “Leave no one behind”.

According to the United Nations, “Great progress has been made in building a better world, but there are many people who are left behind. Many families cannot afford a healthy diet, and this has a direct impact on their health.”

“The problem is not with supply, as today it is estimated that there is food for everyone, but rather with availability and access,” he adds.

This is the great paradox: if the world could produce all the food its inhabitants needed, how could hundreds of millions of people go hungry?

Moreover, more people die every year from food shortages than from health emergencies or natural disasters. Hunger is a “natural” pandemic.

Real famines have been declared in many countries, including the death of children and adults, and in other countries tons of food are still wasted.

Severe hunger threatens the lives of 345 million people in the world, while global military spending exceeds 2 trillion US dollars for the first time, the resources that must be directed to ensuring the goal of Zero Hunger and achieving the goals of the 2030 Agenda.

Balanced production and distribution is still a utopia. It is a shame that functional policies have not been implemented to solve the problem.

Therefore, World Food Day, more than just a celebration, should be seen as an alarm, a wake-up call. Governments, organizations and society in general can do more to fulfill the often-repeated aspirations of a world without hunger.

It remains to be seen whether effective strategies can be developed in the current context, starting from the macroeconomic levels to the domestic economy itself.