World Food Day being observed

World Food Day today (Thursday). The day is being observed in the country as elsewhere across the globe. In Bangladesh, The World Food Day is being observed through various programmes. The theme of the World Food Day-2014 is – ‘Family Farming: Feeding the world, caring for the earth’ – has been chosen to raise the profile of family farming and smallholder farmers. It focuses world attention on the significant role of family farming in eradicating hunger and poverty, providing food security and nutrition, improving livelihoods, managing natural resources, protecting the environment, and achieving sustainable development, in particular in rural areas. The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations marks World Food Day each year on October 16, the day on which the Organisation was founded in 1945, according to a news agency.