{"id":2217,"date":"2024-02-22T10:37:01","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T10:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asoprovida.org\/?p=2217"},"modified":"2024-02-22T10:48:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T10:48:41","slug":"dia-mundial-de-la-alimentacion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asoprovida.org\/en\/world-food-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Food Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Food Day is celebrated every year on 16 October to make people aware of the global food problem and to strengthen the fight against hunger, malnutrition and poverty.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Hunger and undernourishment are problems that have affected the world since time immemorial. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is concerned that people all over the world should have access to food in quantity and quality, and it is working on this by researching the issue and encouraging states to do so.<\/span><\/p>

According to the \"State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World\" report, released by the FAO in the middle of this year, it is estimated that between 691 and 783 million people in the world will suffer from hunger in 2022, 122 million more than in 2019, before the global pandemic. Also, last year, an estimated 148.1 million children under the age of five were stunted because of poor nutrition; 45 million were wasted (morbidly thin); and 37 million were overweight. This means that in 2022, 22.3% of the world's children will not have access to adequate nutrition, which will have irreversible consequences on their growth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Food is a basic and inalienable human right.<\/b>This is why the UN has set \"ending hunger, achieving food security and improving nutrition\" as a fundamental objective within the 2030 Agenda.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Food Security is a concept that emerged in the 1980s, becoming very important after the Rome Declaration (1996) on World Food Security. In this declaration, the FAO states that <\/span>Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>

To analyse food security, FAO (2006) lists four dimensions:<\/span><\/p>