By Irudhaya Jothi Bankura, Oct 16, 2024: The World Food Day, celebrated every year on October 16, marks the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 1945. The theme for this year, “Right to Food for a Better Life and a Better Future,” calls attention toContinue Reading
By George Kannanthanam Bengaluru, Oct 16, 2021: Today (October 16) is World Food Day, I urge the Church in India to convene a Food Summit. It is time the Church in India called for a Food Summit. With more than 800 million people living in hunger worldwide and good manyContinue Reading
Vatican City: In a video message for World Food Day Oct. 15, Pope Francis expressed concern that tons of food is being thrown away while people continue to die for lack of food. “For humanity, hunger is not only a tragedy but it is also shameful,” Pope Francis said inContinue Reading
Konchowki: Norwegian Nobel Committee’s decision to give the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020 to the World Food Programme (WFP) raises the important issue of world hunger and scarcity of food at this juncture of pandemic. The award was announced a week before of the World Food Day that falls onContinue Reading
By Irudhaya Jothi SJ Ragabpur, October 15, 2019: Starvation has killed more Dalits and Adivasis than people of other communities in India, according to the Right To Food Campaign. The campaign has prepared a data sheet of the details of starvation deaths as reported in the mainstream media from 2015Continue Reading
By Irudaya Jothi SJ Kolkata, October 16, 2018: Every year, October 16 is celebrated all over the world as “World Food Day.” ‘Our actions are our future’ is the theme for this year’s ‘The World Food Day’. The day commemorates the foundation of Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of theContinue Reading
The World Food Day is on October 16) and the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on October 17Continue Reading
