Dhaka, Oct. 17 -- October 16 was the World Food Day. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) was established on this day in 1945.
The day is being celebrated since 1979 to commemorate the organization's founding anniversary.
The theme of this year's World Food Day is 'Hand in Hand, Towards Better Food and a Better Future'.
The main objective of the day is to inspire everyone to eliminate hunger, malnutrition and poverty globally and ensure food security.
Problems such as hunger, malnutrition, and food waste still exist in different parts of the world.
The disparity between food abundance on one side and scarcity on the other is the biggest crisis in the current food system.
According to FAO, approximately 673...