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World Food Day, celebrated on October 16th since 1981, aims to call for the eradication of hunger in the world.
This day was chosen because it also marks the founding day of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, in 1945.
A day full of activities related to nutrition, always with well-defined goals.
Firstly, to alert the population to the importance of food production, to encourage economic, technical and technological cooperation between developing countries and, not least, to encourage the rural population to participate in decision-making on aspects that influence their conditions of life.
Food is the main “goal” of a human being in their daily lives. Consciously or unconsciously.
Not only because it is a physiological need and hence it is at the base of Maslow's pyramid – Theory of human needs, but also because the way each human being feeds defines their quality of life.
Food has become a public health problem. A healthy and balanced diet can help a lot in terms of preventing various diseases. However, and hence the concern, the excess or lack of this basic good, it can cause serious diseases that are difficult to treat, especially when we talk on a large scale, as is the case in developing countries.
Hunger is a very serious problem that plagues millions of people. We are talking about 811 million people who went hungry in 2020, according to the UN. There are huge social inequalities that make it impossible for these human beings to have access to food, necessary for survival.
The pandemic situation that haunted us at the end of 2019, beginning of 2020, did nothing to help overcome this problem. On the contrary, attention was mainly focused on fighting a pandemic that caused millions of deaths, while serious problems such as world hunger, among others, were left behind.
It will take a huge effort to honor the promise made by the UN to end world hunger by 2030.
Achieving this goal of becoming the “Zero Hunger Generation” will require dedicated and unapologetically global work. The world's food production is enough for all of us, and yet the 811 million people who suffer from malnutrition contrast with the 1.3 billion overweight people, of which 672 million are obese.
The case is so extreme that hunger kills more people than malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS combined.
The question that arises is, how can each of us contribute to achieving this goal? Our obligation is to maintain a sustainable lifestyle.
There are several advices from the United Nations.
Among them are, donate food, since food waste in the world is immense; buy only the essentials and fight unnecessary consumerism; organize the fridge and pantry in order to have products with a shorter shelf life more accessible compared to those with a longer shelf life; store food correctly according to the needs of each one; support local producers, which not only helps farmers to increase their incomes, but also improves land quality; choose “ugly” vegetables and fruits, this is because the habit of choosing the most aesthetically beautiful foods leaves behind foods that have the same quality and end up spoiling.
We still have the water saving, which we all know is essential to human life and extremely necessary for any type of production. As an example, it takes 50 liters of water to produce an Orange.
Choose easy ways to save water daily, such as washing the dishes with the tap turned off or using the water left in the glasses at the end of the meal to water the plants, etc.
Make an effort to be a conscious consumer and avoid eating meat or fish at every meal, eat at least one vegetarian meal once a week to get rid of the vegetables that have to spoil.
Choice companies with sustainable practices to the detriment of those that harm the environment. Low prices often equate to high human and environmental costs.
Choice organic food, preserve endangered fish species and choose those that have been sustainably caught or bred.
The main thought we must have, apart from all these above mentioned duties, is never to forget that the choices we make today will always be reflected in the future, and some of them are irreversible.
