On #WorldFoodDay, the IAEA & FAO highlight Atoms4Food, a game-changing initiative using nuclear tech to fight global hunger. From boosting crops to cutting food waste, it's innovation for a food-secure future. #Atoms4Food #NuclearInnovation

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/world-food-day-2024-dg-highlights-joint-iaea-and-fao-atoms4food-initiative-to-reduce-global-hunger

From breakfast cereals and protein bars to flavored yogurt and frozen pizzas, ultraprocessed foods are everywhere, filling aisle upon aisle at the supermarket. Researchers are figuring out the features of these foods that harm our health — and proposing ways ahead. #WorldFoodDay

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2023/what-can-we-do-about-ultraprocessed-foods

#KnowableMagazine
#ScienceMastodon

“What the heck is local?” More people are choosing what to eat based on where it was grown, made or created. An anthropologist looks at the myriad ways we link food to place — and whether it really could make a difference. #WorldFoodDay

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2020/what-makes-food-local

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#ScienceMastodon

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RT by @EUClimateAction: LIFE is cooking up something good, #ForThePlanet
In 3 years, #LIFEProject #ClimateSmartChefs has trained 164 chefs from 27 #EU countries who have reduced their recipes' carbon & water footprint by 30%

https://europa.eu/!W6MpCF

#LIFEProgramme #WorldFoodDay

[2024-10-16 11:18 UTC]

Alternative proteins aim to satisfy our cravings for meat, but without all the environmental impacts. Researchers are looking to a wide variety of sources — from peas and seaweed to insects — to meet the growing global demand. #WorldFoodDay

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2023/what-is-protein-of-future

#KnowableMagazine
#ScienceMastodon

Marketed to meat lovers, plant-based burgers like Impossible and Beyond claim to taste like the real thing and to have far lighter environmental footprints. Here’s what the numbers have to say. #WorldFoodDay

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2022/how-sustainable-are-fake-meats

#KnowableMagazine
#ScienceMastodon

#KnowledgeByte: The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a tool that attempts to measure and track hunger globally as well as by region and by country.

The 2024 GHI score for the world was 18.3, which is considered moderate. The index shows that progress against hunger worldwide has largely stalled.

#WorldFoodDay

https://knowledgezone.co.in/posts/Global-Hunger-Index-652cd8e9575e129397b6d41c

On #WorldFoodDay with #LoveandRage from the always articulate @ChrisGPackham

On this #WorldFoodDay, let's come together to promote healthy eating, sustainable farming, and access to nutritious food for all. Every meal matters!
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#HealthyLiving #FoodForAll #Sustainability

It's #WorldFoodDay tomorrow, Wednesday 16 Oct, themed around the right to food. Online:

Supermarkets and the Right to Food in the UK https://www.leeds.ac.uk/main-index/events/event/475/supermarkets-and-the-right-to-food-in-the-uk

Labour’s first 100 days - where are we heading on food, farming & climate? https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/labours-first-100-days-where-are-we-heading-on-food-farming-climate-tickets-1033533415267

#FoodStudies
https://www.leeds.ac.uk/main-index/events/event/475/supermarkets-and-the-right-to-food-in-the-uk

World Food Day 2024
https://www.ipsnews.net/2024/10/world-food-day-2024/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Food_Day

* world’s farmers produce more that enough food to feed global population
* 733M people face hunger
* 2023: 282M people across 59 countries faced acute food insecurity
* increase of 24M people over 2022
* 2.8 billion people unable to afford healthy diet
* right to food: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
* for the benefit of all

Politicians silent on World Food Day as Israel starves Palestinians
https://www.thecanary.co/global/2023/10/17/politicians-marked-world-food-day-but-ignored-israel-starving-palestinians-as-they-spoke/

#WorldFoodDay
#Israel
#Palestians
#Genocide
#Starving
#Siege

Today is #WorldFoodDay!

What comes to your mind when you think of a water and food secure world?

Join the World Food Day Poster Contest (ages 5-19) and show your creativity by designing a poster showing your water action for food.

https://www.fao.org/world-food-day/contest/en

RT by @SfEP: Join us in taking #WaterAction for food as we mark this year's

#WorldFoodDay
#يوم_الأغذية_العالمي
#DiaMundialdelaAlimentacion
#JournéeMondialedelAlimentation
#ВсемирныйДеньПродовольствия
#世界粮食日

Water is life, water is food. Leave no one behind.

: https://nitter.cz/FAO/status/1713736520513810463#m

[2023-10-16 02:00 UTC]

LAPAGAN NA NG TRIP SA PAGKAIN!

Champorado + tuyo? Pancit + bread? O condensed milk + pandesal? Anong paborito mong Pinoy food combo?

#WorldFoodDay
#BMPM

RT by @EUClimateAction: Water is not an infinite resource.

We need to stop taking it for granted.

What we eat and how that food is produced all affect water.

On #WorldFoodDay @FAO calls on countries to take greater #WaterAction for food.

https://www.fao.org/world-food-day/take-action/en/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social+media&utm_campaign=fao

: https://nitter.cz/UNEP/status/1713782068180615396#m

[2023-10-16 05:01 UTC]

As supplies in Gaza are running out, a reminder that today is World Food Day. Let's hope that the opening of the Rafah border with Egypt, however short, allows allows some respite for the people of Gaza.