How are you going to celebrate World Food Day?
16 October is the annual celebration of World Food Day, a day where everyone is invited to reflect on how we can create a sustainable world where everyone has regular access to nutritious food.
Food is one of life’s most basic necessities. We need food in order to live healthy, happy lives, yet millions of people around the world cannot afford a healthy diet, putting them at high risk of food insecurity and malnutrition.
History of World Food Day
World Food Day marks the anniversary of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). Its annual celebration highlights the importance of the organisation in helping to drive forward policies that create a better, more sustainable future for all.
#WorldFoodDay2022 is marked by multiple global challenges including the covid-19 pandemic, war, climate change and the rise in the cost of living, all of which affect global food security.
How to Celebrate World Food Day
World Food Day is a great time to learn more about where food comes from.
The University’s free short online course Food Science and Nutrition: From the Farm to You explores food’s fascinating journey from the farm to your body and examines how new food technologies are revolutionising how we develop new products around the world.
In this short course, you’ll learn how food science and nutrition help us to understand the fascinating world of food and explore how nutritional needs vary in different countries.
It is also worth spending some time exploring issues of global food safety and nutrition. World Food Day offers an excellent opportunity to improve your understanding and awareness of these issues.
Food Safety and Nutrition: A Global Approach to Public Health is an online course that uncovers some of the challenges of ensuring food security faced by policymakers, researchers and individuals worldwide. You’ll explore how large-scale change affects food safety and discover some of today’s pressing global nutrition issues.
World Food Day is your Day!
World Food Day should be a reminder that knowledge leads the way to action. Enhance your understanding of global food safety and science by taking one or more of our short online courses on FutureLearn today:
Find out more about our Food Science and Nutrition: From the Farm to You and Food Safety and Nutrition: A Global Approach to Public Health online courses.
Leeds students can access these courses for free from the University of Leeds FutureLearn Campus.
