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Ghana joins International Community to mark World Food Day

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World Food Dayis celebrated every year around the world on October 16.

World Food Day is a day of action dedicated to tackling global hunger. Held annually on people from around the world come together to declare their commitment to eradicate worldwide hunger from our lifetime.

This year, World Food Day calls for action across sectors to make healthy and sustainable diets affordable and accessible to everyone. At the same time, it calls on everyone to start thinking about what we eat.

Celebrating the creation of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), events are organized in over 150 countries across the world, making it one of the most celebrated days of the UN calendar.

These events promote worldwide awareness and action for those who suffer from hunger and for the need to ensure food security and nutritious diets for all. 

The focus of the day is that food is a basic and fundamental human right.

Yet, in a world of billions, over 820million people worldwide suffering chronic undernourishment, 60% women and almost five million children under the age of five die of malnutrition-related causes every day.

It’s also important to note that while millions go hungry, 672 million people suffer from obesity, and a further 1.3 billion are overweight. We can change this.

World Food Day 2018 focused on SDG 2 – Zero Hunger, with a theme of “Our Actions are our Future”.

As Ghana joins the international community to mark this year’s World Food Day, at the forecourt of the State House in Accra, drama series, television and radio talk shows and a float will be held as part of the celebration, which will  be climaxed with a grand durbar.

In the Western North Region, government says it is rolling out a number of interventions in agriculture to enhance food production and boost the economy of Ghana.

These include the Planting for food and Job, Planting for Export and Rural Development and Presidential Special Rice Initiative.

In an interview with Radio Ghana the Western North Regional Minister, Kingsley Aboagye–Gyedu, said output from the initiatives are so overwhelming that the one district one warehouse project is being carried out in the region.

That apart, government has earmarked 50 different feeder roads in ten cocoa regions including Western North this year to help reduce post–harvest losses.

 

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