Join the World Food Day Poster Contest and show us your creativity! Use your skills to show how better foods create a better future - and how together we can build a peaceful, sustainable, prosperous, and food-secure world where everyone has access to a healthy diet. Let your poster inspire action for the future we can build hand in hand with people, communities, and nature.
Take a photo or scan your poster and submit your entry by filling out the form on our website. Three winners in each age category will be selected by our jury and announced here in December. Winners will be promoted by FAO offices around the world and receive a certificate and surprise gift bag.
To participate, you must be aged 5 - 19. The deadline for entries is 7 November 2025.
Discover the latest activity book Hand in Hand for Better Foods and a Better Future. In this special FAO 80th anniversary edition, join Taleb and his grandmother Teslim in an inspiring story set in Mauritania and discover how their lives have been transformed by the Great Green Wall initiative. Packed with engaging activities, games, and sustainable crafts, children can explore the Four Betters and learn how by working hand in hand, we can build a peaceful, sustainable, prosperous, and food-secure world where everyone has access to a healthy diet.
By sparking curiosity and encouraging action, this activity book aims to empower young minds to become future changemakers in their own communities.
The Contest is open to children and youth between the ages of 5 and 19, living anywhere in the world.
The age to declare in the entry form is the one at the time of entering the Contest. Minors must have the permission of their parents or legal guardians to participate in the Contest.
General rules
1. FAO reserves the right to disqualify submissions which are not consistent with the Organization’s values and guiding principles.
2. FAO also reserves the right to verify the eligibility of any entry and/or entrant (including an entrant’s identity and address) and to disqualify any entrant who submits an entry that is not in accordance with the Contest Rules, including these Rules, Copyright and Privacy, or who tampers with the entry process.
3. FAO will not pay any fees, nor pay any costs relating to, participation in any contest or for the use of any submissions in relation to the contest.
4. No logos, URLs, telephone numbers, or calls that solicit directly for monetary donations should be included in any material.
5. FAO will not be responsible, and cannot be held liable, for incomplete, lost, late, misdirected or illegible entries or for failure to receive entries due to transmission failures or technical failures of any kind, including, without limitation, malfunctioning of any network, hardware or software, whether originating with sender or for any human error, lost/delayed data transmission, or any other error or malfunction.
6. By submitting entries to the contest, entrants agree that personal data, especially name and address, may be processed, shared, and otherwise used in accordance with the FAO Data Protection Policy. The data will be used for the purposes and within the context of the contest, FAO institutional activities, and any other purposes outlined in these Rules, and it may also be used by FAO in order to verify the entrant's identity, address and telephone number or to otherwise verify the entrant's eligibility to participate in the contest.
7. Nothing in these General Rules or in any rules for the contests, nor any acts performed or statements made in relation to the contests, shall be deemed a waiver, express or implied, of any of the privileges and immunities of FAO.
8. FAO employees and their immediate family members (spouses, parents, children, siblings and their respective spouses, regardless of where they live) or persons living in the same households of such employees, whether or not related, are not eligible to enter the contests. FAO will determine eligibility at its sole discretion.
9. Partners or relations of partner staff of the institutions involved in the launch of contests, and relations of the judging committee are not eligible to compete.
Copyright and Privacy
10. Entrants must own the copyright of the material they submit to the contest. If the material contains images of a person or persons, entrants must have obtained the permission and consent of those persons or their legal tutors for submitting the material.
11. The entrant declares that, to the best of his/her knowledge, no third party can claim any rights on the materials submitted.
12. FAO will not seek additional approvals in connection with the use of the material and it will not be responsible for any claim or complaint alleging violation of the rights of third parties.
13. Copyright of the material remains with the entrants. By entering the contest, entrants grant an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide exclusive license to FAO, to reproduce, distribute, display and create derivative works of the entries (along with a name credit) in connection with the contest and the promotion of FAO’s work, in, amongst others:
