By Fatima Saka
With the rising deflection on climate change across the globe, the 2022 World Food Day is centered on the theme; “leaving no one behind”, with many people across the globe facing hunger and malnutrition.
World Food Day is an annual event that is commemorated every 16th of October, according to the Food Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAOUN).
An International Day of Observance, aims at raising awareness of the ongoing efforts to eliminate poverty, hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition.
World Food Day is also aims at raising awareness against global hunger and motivate people to take hasty action
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According to research, In 2021, about 193 million people experienced high acute food insecurity, requiring humanitarian assistance for their survival, while over half a million faced Catastrophe conditions, meaning starvation and death.
Findings also show that 3.1 billion people, equivalent to 40 percent of the world’s population, cannot afford a healthy diet.
Likewise, two-thirds of these people experiencing high acute food insecurity are rural dwellers and farmers.
The devastating impact of Climate change affects the rural areas with low income, the farmland are affected with pests and diseases and changing the nutrient composition of major staple crops.
This also leaves consequences on 30, 000 thousand people who are forced to flee their homes because of conflict and persecution every day.
And drastic increases in food prices, and fertilizers, which are moving countries that were already vulnerable into the crisis.
Which 160 million children worldwide are engaged in child labour for survive.