On World Food Day we think about the food we eat and the people who don’t have access to it. Let’s test your knowledge of food issues.
Ripe vegetables on a gray table. (Illustration by LightFieldStudios from Getty Images)
The 16th of October marks World Food Day, celebrating the founding in 1945 of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization to combat famine, hunger and food insecurity around the world.
We all need to eat but too many of us don’t have access to food, as a result of natural and man-made disasters: droughts, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis and war.
Our correspondents and our student journalists delve into all kinds of food-related problems that they find in their communities and that connect to problems happening around the world. In exploring the top of food, malnutrition and hunger, young people learn about inequities and also about the many people trying to find systemic solutions to our food problems.
How much do you know about global food issues? Test your knowledge with these questions that come from articles written by our correspondents and students.