FAO // World Food Day 2013: "Sustainable Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition"

The objectives of World Food Day are to: -encourage attention to agricultural food production and to stimulate national, bilateral, multilateral and non-governmental efforts to this end; -encourage economic and technical cooperation among developing countries; -encourage the participation of rural people, particularly women and the least privileged categories, in decisions and activities influencing their living conditions; -heighten public awareness of the problem of hunger in the world; -promote the transfer of technologies to the developing world; and -strengthen international and national solidarity in the struggle against hunger, malnutrition and poverty and draw attention to achievements in food and agricultural development.