Sri Lanka, Oct. 28 -- Every year on October 16, World Food Day asks the world to look at its plates and at the people who fill them. This year's theme, 'Innovate today to feed tomorrow', is a useful prompt for a sector that often talks about innovation in terms of machines and prices. For poultry producers in Sri Lanka, innovation has a more practical meaning. It is the way a bird is raised, what it eats and whether a family can trust the label on the pack.Sri Lanka Travel

The scale of the challenge

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) estimates that about 673 million people were undernourished in 2024, equal to 8.2 per cent of the world's population. In Southern Asia, the prevalence of undernourishment fell from 7.9 per cent in ...