October 16, is the day to highlight the plight of the hungry, the undernourished the malnourished of the world-particularly it highlights the plight of such children and Mothers.
Inspire of all scientific growth and so much of food production, so much of surplus food grains still people are reported to be dying of starvation. The net result of this confusion is that nearby 300 million of people go to bed hungry. Even those who work hard to produce the food grains remain hungry. 600 million live in the villages out of which 400 million depend on agriculture. The U.N.O. had made a survey of the food supply world over and their report says:-
“Women do not have the same access to food as man. The ill-arrangement does not only affect their health but also the future of the health of children …”
Hunger weakens people not only physically but even physiologically and it is a vicious cycle in which they get got.
Seven out of ten of the world’s poor, are women and girls. There is so much of talk of empowering women. If it is seriously thought about, the first thing to do about this empowering would be to serve them proper food and nutrition, reduce poverty and make distribution of food equitably to all- men and women.
These are the causes and considerations that have led the U.N.O. to call for a day to be observed as the food day and that day is OCTOBER 16.