Today (Friday) is World Food Day. World Food Day is celebrated every year on October 16. In honor of Food Agriculture, the UNSC (United Nations Security Council) is celebrating this day. Approximately 150 countries in the world are celebrating together with multinational companies in order to improve the Food safety, plowing, and the lack of food.
The original concept of this event is to remove poverty and hunger from the entire world. The primary goal is that each individual person should get the food. Why do you need to bother about hunger? One out of Nine in the world’s population is surviving chronically.
Out of 100% hungry people, 60% are women in the world.
50 million children under the age of 5 die due to hunger.
4 in 10 children have body and brain problems due to hunger in the poorest countries.
Can we remove the Hunger completely from the world? The UNSC policy says we can. It can be. For this, many world leaders have signed the agreement.
The number of children under the age of 5 dying due to hunger has reduced by half in the last 20 years.
Since 1990, the prevalence of severe poverty has fallen in half. Can hungry people study? Will they work properly?. That is why World Food day being celebrated across the world in order to break through hunger in society.
Learn more about people’s hunger in the world. Learn hungry in India.
Learn to know the hungry people in your state, city, and street. There is enough food for everyone in the world. But it is not reaching the people. Hence, our ancestors said that the best donation in the world is giving food to the poor people. So that Tamil devotee Paramachariyar offered a ‘Handful of rice’ to the poor daily.
Government Lunch program, play school were started in India by considering the hungry and poverty. Because among hungry people, 1/3 are children. It’s an unbearable cruelty. Researchers confirmed that if a hungry person dominated in this world, nobody could survive a peaceful and relieved life. Children and lunch program has given good results in India since it has been successful for the past 50 years.
However,
34.3 percent of children are having the growth problems.
Two out of five children are underweight.
More than 50 percent are anemic. Among unhealthy kids in the world, 1/3 are Indians. So they are becoming ingenious. Job opportunities also will not be available to them. Many of the diseases easily infect them due to a lack of immunity. Since Indian populations are growing very fast, food scarcity will be a problem soon. India is at 63rd position among the 78 countries that have hunger. 1/3 of the kids in India are unhealthy and weak.
According to UNICEF, 47 percent of the children in India are underweight. 46 percent of children under three years old are not growing well. Agriculture in India improved a lot. But a lot of food is wasted due to the lack of proper maintenance. India is at the forefront in the production of milk in the world. Vegetables and fruits have produced more.
One of the studies says that using the regular families’ daily wasted food can feed 200 million people. We are wasting too much food in the name of grandeur in marriage functions and ceremonies. A sad fact that millions of people go to sleep daily hungry.
But for some reason, wasting 40 per cent of the food daily, which research emphasized is the responsibility of each individual person. Even abroad, food banks started to provide food to poor people. In 2004 2005, 407 million people were said to be below the poverty line in India.
In 2011-12, 270 million people were said to be below the poverty line in India. So 137 million people coming over from the poverty line is very happy news. How to avoid food waste by each individual?
Buy only as much as you want.
Take small bags to the shopping.
Preserving fruits and vegetables in a clean refrigerator.
Don’t throw the excess food. Give to the needy and poor people.
Teach your children about the attitude of giving food to hungry people. Prevent cereal wastage before harvesting it. Avoid wasting cereals in the post-harvest. It’s a waste to produce more if all the produced is not being used. Prevent food from getting petrified. Food Bank’s goal is to bring food to hungry people.
You can start a food bank in your street and give food to hungry people. Food is a kind of God’s blessing for all. The world’s dangerous enemy is hungry. If that is the situation, then the individual is personally responsible.
Avoid grand wedding ceremonies. Feed the orphanages on the day. This is a great thing that we start today immediately.