World Food Day is an international day celebrated every year worldwide on October 16 to commemorate the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in 1945. The day aims to promote global awareness and action for those who suffer from hunger and to highlight the need to ensure healthy diets for all.

The world's farmers produce enough food to feed more than the global population yet, hunger persists. Around 733 million people are facing hunger in the world due to repeated weather shocks, conflicts, economic downturns, inequality, and the pandemic. This impacts the poor and vulnerable most severely, many of whom are agricultural households, reflecting widening disparities across and within countries. 

Food is the third most basic human need, after air and water, and everyone should have the right to adequate food. Human rights such as the right to food, life and liberty, work, and education are recognized by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and two legally binding international covenants.