World Food Day•16 October 2013
Sustainable
Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition
Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations www.fao.org
HEALTHY PEOPLE
DEPEND ON HEALTHY
FOOD SYSTEMS
About this year’s design
Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser
(1928-2000) used bright colours and organic forms to express a reconciliation
of humans with nature, notions that echo this year’s World Food Day theme.
Image courtesy of the Hundertwasser Foundation.
About World Food Day
The
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations marks World Food Day
each year on 16 October, the day on which the Organization was founded in 1945.
The objectives
of World Food Day are to:
- encourage attention to agricultural food production and to stimulate national, bilateral, multilateral and non-governmental efforts to this end;
- encourage economic and technical cooperation among developing countries;
- encourage the participation of rural people, particularly women and the least privileged categories, in decisions and activities influencing their living conditions;
- heighten public awareness of the problem of hunger in the world;
- promote the transfer of technologies to the developing world; and
- strengthen international and national solidarity in the struggle against hunger, malnutrition and poverty and draw attention to achievements in food and agricultural development.
Did
you know?
One
out of every four children in the world under the age of five is
stunted.
This means 165 million children who are so malnourished
they will
never reach their full physical and cognitive potential.
About
2 billion people in the world
lack vitamins and minerals that
are
essential for good health.
Some
1.4 billion people are overweight. Of these,
about
one-third are obese and at risk of coronary
heart
disease, diabetes or other health problems.
Quiz of
the week
Well done
to Mrs Venn who correctly answered last week’s question. This week is food related.
Which of
the following foods contain the most calories?
A McDonalds
Hamburger
A
Starbucks blueberry muffin
A large
caramel latte
A medium portion
of chips from KFC
Jokes of
the week
"Waiter, waiter, what's this fly doing in my
soup? I think it's the backstroke, sir."
"Two peanuts walk into a really rough bar. Unfortunately, one was a salted."
"Knock knock who's there? Lettuce...Lettuce who? Lettuce in & we'll tell you!"
"What does Dr. Who eat with his pizza? Dalek bread!"
"Two peanuts walk into a really rough bar. Unfortunately, one was a salted."
"Knock knock who's there? Lettuce...Lettuce who? Lettuce in & we'll tell you!"
"What does Dr. Who eat with his pizza? Dalek bread!"
