WORLD FOOD DAY

Every year on 16th October, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nation celebrates World Food Day to commemorate the founding of the organisation, which was founded in 1945. The main objective to celebrate this day is to promote worldwide awareness and action for those who suffer from hunger. Every year a theme is selected, this year's theme is "Change the future of migration. Invest in food security and rural development". Theme is being selected since 1981. Many organisation across the globe celebrate this day to spread awareness about food security.

This day is celebrated to make progress to achieve the goal of #zerohunger by 2030. Despite so much effort in spreading #zerohunger awareness, it's a bad statistics that India is ranked 100th out of 119 country in Global Hunger Index (GHI). India scored 31.4 score out of 100 and are placed in high end of "serious" category. More than 20% of Indian Children under the age of five have lower height in relation to their height and about 33% are too short in relation to their age. India, being a developing country, has developed a lot in many areas but this is something which has to improve. Despite, India being world's second largest food producer it also has second highest under nourished population in the world.

Reaching #zerohunger is a difficult task but not impossible and can be achieved with proper planning. Out of the 129 countries monitored by FAO, 72 countries have already achieved the target of halving the proportion of people who suffer from hunger in 2015. This shows that achieving #zerohunger by 2030 is very much possible. FAO is tirelessly working in rural areas of 130 countries to achieve the goal of #zerohunger.

We all should celebrate World Hunger Day and spread the message of #zerohunger. We should try not to waste our food as someone is striving for it and also if possible try to make sure that no one in your surrounding sleep hungry.