"Food is the most important thing for the people", and grain has been playing an irreplaceable basic role in the whole national economy. During the period of 1972, for two consecutive years, the abnormal climate caused a worldwide grain failure, and the Soviet Union snapped up a large amount of grain, which led to a worldwide food crisis.

1973 and 1974, FAO held the first and second food congresses in succession, in order to arouse the concern of the whole world, especially developing countries, about food and agricultural production. Governments and people of all countries are urged to take action to increase food production, distribute food more rationally and fight hunger and malnutrition.

However, the problem has not been solved, and the world food situation is more severe. 1979165438+10, the 20th FAO conference decided that 198 1 6 (the anniversary of the founding of FAO) would be.

65438+1October 16 was chosen as World Food Day because FAO was founded on 1945. ?

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In the late 1970s, Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute in Washington, USA, believed that farmers and ranchers all over the world had exhausted ways to increase production, but the production of rice and wheat began to decline. Elsewhere in Asia, rice researchers have not significantly increased crop yields for more than 20 years.

In 2009, the world population increased at the rate of 965,438+0 million per year. How long can the earth provide people with "enough" food? Many people are studying anxiously. Many governments attach great importance to holding World Food Day.

Some heads of state gave speeches on this day, some countries held commemorative meetings or published commemorative articles, and scientific research institutions in some countries published scientific research achievements in food and agriculture and held scientific seminars to raise people's attention and research on food and a series of problems caused by food.

Baidu Encyclopedia-World Food Day