“Sustainable Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition”
“Sustainable Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition” will
be the focus of World Food Day in 2013. The official World Food
Day theme – announced at the start of every year by the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) – gives
focus to World Food Day observances and helps increase
understanding of problems and solutions in the drive to end
hunger. Today almost 870 million people worldwide are
chronically undernourished. Unsustainable models of development
are degrading the natural environment, threatening ecosystems
and biodiversity that will be needed for our future food supply.
Calls for profound changes in our agriculture and food systems
are becoming more frequent and more insistent. What would a
sustainable food system look like? Is it possible to get from
here to there? What would need to change to move us in that
direction? World Food Day 2013 is an opportunity to explore
these and other questions, and help bring abou