Think About What You Eat on World Food Day

                                                                                                              Wednesday October 16, 2013

Today (Wed Oct 16) is World Food Day.

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations is celebrated every year on this date, bringing awareness to the political need to end hunger.

Christian organisations and charities are using the day to encourage people to ‘eat sustainably for food security and nutrition’.

Oxfam are urging people to ‘reflect’ on the issues behind our food and remember that 1 in 7 people around the world go to bed hungry.

‘Alternative’ food systems are being celebrated in their ‘Food Heroes’ project.

The Smallholder and Grower Festival in Forfar, the Culture Kitchen Relay across Scotland and the Southside Foodshare project in Glasgow are among the nominations.

Christian Aid is highlighting the innovative ways that people in hot countries are able to use modern techniques to preserve food instead of it rotting in the heat.

The UN’s official figures reports that 870 million people are ‘chronically undernourished’ and 165 million children under the age of five are stunted thanks to malnutrition.

The wastage of ‘imperfect’ fruit and vegetables is highlighted as a particular source of frustration, with almost 300 million tonnes of food thrown out by developed countries because its ‘shape’ is wrong. Director-General of FAO, Jose Graziana da Silva said ‘that figure is more than the total net food production of sub Saharan Africa and would be sufficient to feed the estimated 870 million hungry people in the world.”

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