Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

16 October 2024

World Food Day

Right to #FoodHeroes 

Join us in celebrating the work of #FoodHeroes - the women, men, boys, and girls who are helping to realise the right to food for all, nurturing our communities and making a positive change, even under challenging circumstances. 

Young singers of the World Food Day music video
09/09/2024

Italy

Rapping in a mix of eight languages, a diverse group of some 40 young people are spreading the message of this year’s World Food Day...

Prisca da Costa
07/09/2024

Timor Leste

In the small village of Betano, nestled in the lush landscapes of central Timor-Leste, a simple dispute over a humble legume...

Sribash Chandra Das
07/09/2024

Bangladesh

In the village of Subarnarchar, southeast of Bangladesh’s capital...

Ameera Khamees Alassi
07/09/2024

Palestine

For Ameera Khamees Alassi, the day begins at the break of dawn. By 6 a.m., she is up and...

Stella Jean
25/09/2024

Italy/ Haiti 

Felt rugs, high fashion and food security: three items you rarely – if ever – see mentioned...

Ebru Baybara Demir
25/09/2024

Turkey

After graduating in t

Walter El Nagar
14/08/2024

Switzerland

The Swiss city of Geneva is the first in Europe to enshrine the right to food in its constitution, and Chef Walter El Nagar is...

Abdul Amir Salman Aissa
14/08/2024

Iraq

At age 53, Abdul Amir Salman Aissa has been raising buffalos for almost half a century. He started when he was 5 years old, working...

Nissa Wargadipura
14/08/2024

Indonesia

Nissa Wargadipuras’s earliest memories involve learning how to live with nature. Her childhood home’s backyard in the hilly town...

Goretty Cueto Buelvas
14/08/2024

Colombia

The Colombian city of Cartagena de Indias has long been a prime destination for tourists, who flock here to experience its variety...

Alfred Bolo
07/08/2024

Kenya

If you had told Alfred Bolo ten years ago he’d be protecting wasps as part of his living, he’d have laughed at the suggestion.

And...

Lauriel Williams
07/08/2024

Grenada

When Lauriel Williams moved to the northern point of Grenada in 1986, her eyes were set on making the area something more than the...

Mohammed Abd El Hady Abd El Aziz Badawy
06/08/2024

Egypt

In the village of Nabraweya, about a three-and-a-half-hours’ drive from Egypt’s capital Cairo, farmers vividly remember...

Jazgul Tolomusheva
06/08/2024

Kyrgyzstan

Once a week, in a gravely backyard in Bokonbayevo, on the southern shore of Kyrgyzstan’s majestic Lake Issyk-Kul, a gaggle of...

Asma Rouissi
19/09/2024

Tunisia

In the hills surrounding her hometown in northern Tunisia, entrepreneur Asma Rouissi finds the ingredients that lay the foundation...

Kinley Wangmo
18/09/2024

Bhutan

Like millions around the world, Kinley Wangmo and her family were left without a source of income during the COVID-19 pandemic and...

Seleni Grajales
18/09/2024

Belize

Seleni Grajales’ days were always busy. But since 2022, things got even busier for the principal from Belize,...

Saboto Caesar
18/09/2024

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 

When the banana industry in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines...

Anthony Rahayel
25/09/2024

Lebanon 

On a recent

Cuthbert Monrocq
04/10/2024

Derived from its Greek name Theobroma Cacao,...

María Piñan
08/10/2024

Ecuador 

For María Piñan, farming the way her ancestors did is about more than preserving tradition. 

“It is an act of resistance...

Judy Kipkenda
07/10/2024

Kenya 

The Ogiek are East Africa’s largest forest-dwelling Indigenous Peoples’ community and have survived for generations by deeply...

Ricardo Frugoli
09/10/2024

Brazil 

In his years living in São Paulo, Brazil, Ricardo Frugoli had taken out the trash hundreds of times. But it wasn’t until...

Chef Max Mariola
08/10/2024

Italy

Thinking back to his childhood in Italy in the 1970s, much of Max Mariola’s memories evolve around food. For the chef from Rome, summer...

The Harlem Globetrotters
11/10/2024

On 10 March, the Harlem Globetrotters, a basketball team from Harlem, New York, USA, visited the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations...

Chef Binta
16/10/2024

Three young siblings from a small town in northeastern Ghana wake up one morning delighted by the fonio porridge that awaits them that day. As the children...