This Thursday marks the 27th anniversary of World Food Day, a global event orchestrated to raise awareness and understanding of hunger, and to seek solutions to alleviate this worldwide problem.   This year’s theme is ‘World Food Insecurity - the challenge of climate change’ and events are expected to take place in over 150 countries, and in cities across the U.S. The focus of World Food Day is particularly vital now as we are seeing a dramatic rise of food shortages and sharp increases in food prices that are effecting people everywhere.   There are a multitude of factors that have led to these dire circumstances, and World Food Day brings together communities and organizations to coordinate dynamic and localized responses to the problems.

takepart by attending an event in your community or organize an event if there isn’t one planned already.