Dear Food, I could go on and write a eulogy for you, it’s World Food Day, a day set aside to celebrate food across the flora and fauna of the world. The rumblings in my stomach, the flaring of my nostrils, the sensitization of my taste buds are accelerated by the mere mention of your name.
What greater love can there be than the love for food? Food transports everyone across borders, as a proficient time travel machine. Food acts as a fuel for a hungry machine, channeling and lubricating mortals with purposeful living.
World Food Day is celebrated globally on the 16th of October to acknowledge the establishment of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The theme for this year is ‘Zero Hunger’.
Zero Hunger is a major challenge in managing migration and its accompanying hunger crisis worldwide. Imagining a world where food security is achieved even during a crisis is to imagine a world where peace can be achieved.
Hunger is an urgent need for food, it, however, becomes a condition when a person is unable to eat sufficient food that would meet rudimentary nutritional needs, a situation that has become a global epidemic. Hunger contractions in individuals are common phenomena in developing nations such as Nigeria. Many are familiar with hunger pangs, and tales of being hungry in one’s lifetime is a subject for competition.
The basic human needs: food, clothing, and shelter, are inadequately available, hence the struggle to get these necessities will continue to be a priority. Right from the primitive ages, human existence has been hinged on survival, which is based on his ability to provide food for his clan. His reasoning faculty increasingly developed as he hunted for food. Thus, emphasizing the primitive value placed on the availability of food among mankind.
It is therefore imperative, that the United Nations’ goal of eliminating hunger is well applauded as a remedial solution for the scarcity of food which would enhance economic development all over the world.
