Rural transformation
The 16th of October is World Food Day. It is the day to celebrate the establishment of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the day to highlight continuing work for improved food security and nutrition worldwide.
The Swedish World Food Day celebration was held the 21st of October in Stockholm. The event was a collaboration between the Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative (SIANI), Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation and the Swedish FAO committee.
Every year, all the UN Agencies celebrate the World Food Day on October 16, the day on which the FAO was founded in 1945. It is celebrated to raise public awareness about hunger in the world,...
In the spirit of FAO’s International Year of Family Farming the Swedish celebration of the World Food Day in Stockholm put young farmers in the center and highlighted their importance for sufficient food supply for the growing global population now and in the future.
We are approaching the finale of the International Year of Family Farming, and this year’s World Food Day theme, chosen by the UN, aims to highlight the crucial value that family farms bring...
16th of October is the World Food Day. First celebrated in 1979, it is also the anniversary of FAO's founding. The theme of the day is announced at the beginning of each year by the FAO, this initiative is meant to facilitate better understanding of the problems and solutions to ending hunger.
A food system is made up of the environment, people, institutions and processes by which food is produced, processed and brought to consumers. With millions of people around the world still...
Friska människor är beroende av sunda livsmedelssystem För att få näringsriktig mat på bordet till de som idag är hungriga, måste vi titta på hur maten produceras, processas och...
Following last year's theme on food prices and fluctuations, this year's World Food Day will present a theme focusing more on institutional structures in agriculture, specifically on farmer's cooperatives. The offical theme title is "Agricultural cooperatives – key to feeding the world".
The World Environment Day is celebrated on the 5th of June. It was introduced in 1972 when the United Nations conference on the Human Environment Began. Since then every year people organize and participate in different events and activities to raise awareness and understanding of how important the environment is.