The luxury of food and health can only be understood by people who do not have it. Access to resources to accomplish the act of eating is not available to insurmountable numbers of people across the globe. Let us pledge to not let people go hungry.
Food and the life it sustains
To survive on this earth, we need food. The diet we consume sustains us and helps us in our day-to-day activities. Personally, for many people with God’s grace, hunger means very little, but for some it is an everyday feeling.
Food not only provides a means of survival for the body, but it also allows us to feel emotions. While the elite might say food is emotion, many adhere to becoming emotional when food is offered.
When one is in a position to provide, one should aim for sustainable provisions in order to include everyone.
To adhere to this aim, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations has put forth October 16th as World Food Day.
FAO and World Food Day
The United Nations (UN) is an organisation that works on the cooperative collaboration of nations across the globe to eradicate what ails them collectively.
As we find common cold or flu in any part of the world, irrespective of the status of the country-developed, developing or under-developed, hunger can be encountered as well.
While several developed countries rank at the top of the Hunger Index, which maps the rising and lowering of hunger around the world, many countries fall short of battling such conditions.
For the good of all, the United Nations formed the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to promote awareness about hunger and food and map the conditions of those who are underprivileged to the luxury of food.
The awareness program runs its course on October 16th every year with a new theme. In 2022, the FAO has come up with the pledge “Leave NO ONE Behind” theme to forecast the challenges faced by people who are neglected and live on meager levels of diet.
In response to people’s fear, the FAO and the UN work hard to bring everyone up to a nearly equal level.
The Global Hunger Index and India
The Global Hunger Index (GHI) tracks the absence of food for the citizens of any country. There are a total of 121 countries from around the world that fall into this index, of which India is also one of them.
The Hunger Index is an annual peer-reviewed report that is issued every year in October. The report shows the lack of diet supplements for people, irrespective of their designation within their country.
Initially, GHI was conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI, US-based; 2006) and Welthungerhilfe (Germany-based), but later on, IFPRI ended the collaboration and Welthungerhilfe joined hands with Concern Worldwide (an Irish NGO), which now produces GHI annually.
As India is still a work in progress, it has made its way past several hardships of hunger and poverty, and is consistently working to eradicate the same.
But a recent report has found India slipping to 107th place in GHI 2022.
Gear up and step up India
While India faces severe rates of inflation, it has also come under fire from the GHI by slipping multiple marks on the index.
Globally, India has shown remarkable strength in diplomatic dialogues at many appearances, but the GHI has brought it down to a low it faced decades ago.
For any developing country, a report which intends to tarnish and derail the up-gradation it has been planning and acting upon does not prove beneficial.
To understand this better, World Food Day, observed by many governmental and non-governmental organizations, arranges awareness events through marathons, cultural performances, hunger drives, exhibitions, concerts, and lectures to educate people about food and unite them with the pledge “Leave No one behind”.
In India, we know and find many people who are unable to acquire a healthy diet on a daily basis, and through these events, the monetary amounts collected are used to help such individuals.
Pledge “Leave NO ONE Behind“
Accepting every human as part of the community, irrespective of their status in the economy, helps the nation to bloom.
Putting food in someone’s belly is a noble act of kindness and compassion, and we should not shy away from it.
As a country that has been brought down by international standards to 107th rank, it has a long way to go and improve its mark. For us, the first step is to understand the methods and techniques that we can apply to food and food waste management.
Saving and serving should be the qualities we run after so that no one is left behind on GHI, the scale that maps the degraded conditions of people and people must adhere to this pledge with sincerity.
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