World Food Day 2025: Theme and background for the commemoration

Jakarta – Every year on October 16, there is an anniversary of World Food Day. This year, World Food Day 2025 coincides with the 80th anniversary of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Check out the review of World Food Day 2025. Scroll TO CONTINUE According to the FAO website, World Food Day 2025 has the theme “Hand in Hand for Better Foods and a Better Future”. The commemoration of World Food Day 2025 calls for global cooperation to create a future that is peaceful, sustainable, prosperous and food secure. By working together, across governments, organisations, sectors and communities, we can transform the agri-food system to ensure that everyone has access to healthy diets, living in harmony with the planet. The agri-food system is facing unprecedented challenges. Conflict, the impact of extreme weather and climate events, economic shocks and rising inequality are putting increasing pressure on our agricultural land, the water we rely on and the biodiversity that sustains life. Supply chains remain fragile, and the impact of disruptions is felt in homes, markets and fields around the world. In some places, the level of food insecurity is very serious. An estimated 673 million people live in hunger. Elsewhere, rising obesity rates and widespread food waste point to an unbalanced system – where food abundance and scarcity coexist, often side by side. Poster for World Food Day 2025 (Photo: FAO Doc.) From governments and international organizations to farmers, researchers, business people and consumers, including young people, all parties have a role in shaping the transformation of the agri-food system. In commemoration of FAO’s 80th anniversary, the organization is ready to move forward with its members and partners. The focus is clear, namely to find practical and sustainable solutions capable of answering current challenges and helping to create a world that is food secure for all, now and in the future. Background to World Food Day World Food Day is the establishment of FAO. In 2025, the FAO organization will be 80 years old, along with World Food Day 2025 which is celebrated on 16 October. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is a specialized UN agency that leads international efforts to overcome hunger. The goal is to achieve food security for all and ensure that everyone has regular access to enough high quality food to lead an active and healthy life. With 195 members in 194 countries and the European Union, FAO works in more than 130 countries around the world. (squeeze/squeeze)