World Food Day 2025

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World Food Day 2025

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By Andrea Ventura Nov 11, 2025

Image: Toronto Youth Food Policy Logo

A very belated ode to World Food Day, 2025!

We’ve rung in an updated crew of council members, and as our first blog post of the 2025-2026 council year, we thought we’d start it out by a very belated Happy World Food Day 2025, which is yearly on October 16th.

What is World Food Day?

World Food Day is a global acknowledgement and celebration of a food-secure future, embracing sustainable transitions that are peaceful and prosperous (FAO, 2025). This day takes on a collaborative approach, stringing together calls from governments, communities, and organizations all across the world. It’s a call to transform our current food system for food futures full of harmony and health.

Two major institutions that have supported World Food Day are both the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations, and the theme for 2025 is “Hand in hand for better food and a better future” (United Nations, 2025). Amazingly, 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of both of these groups. The groups remind the world of the importance of shifting global focus to ensuring a much more equitable food system for the entire world. 

Image: FAO, 2025 (https://www.fao.org/world-food-day/about/en)

Call to Action

World Food Day is also widely commemorated by the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (Wikipedia, 2025). Insights from these organizations include many regarding numbers on hunger and food security: for example, according to the WHO, around 733 million experienced hunger in 2023 (2024), setting potential setbacks for achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a major goal to be Zero Hunger by 2030 (WHO, 2024). The report that outlined this major statistic of global hunger highlights that this sets the world back about 15 years (WHO, 2024), a statistic that should be extremely alarming among these times of severe food insecurity and high levels of undernourishment.

There is clearly a need for strong networks and collaboration across these global alliances to continue and grow in order to tackle the ongoing crisis of food insecurity. At the Toronto Youth Food Policy Council, we try to think globally by primarily acting locally. 

Close to Home

The TYFPC has many partnerships in the Toronto area that we support. These include but are not limited to:

  • Daily Bread Food Bank (https://www.dailybread.ca/)
  • FoodShare Toronto (https://foodshare.net/)
  • marketcityTO (Instagram: @marketcityTO)
  • York University’s Faculty of Environmental Studies and Urban Change (https://euc.yorku.ca/)
  • Black Environmental Initiative (https://beinitiative.com/)
  • George Brown College, Hospitality & Culinary Arts and the Honours Bachelor of Food Studies (https://www.georgebrown.ca/programs/honours-bachelor-of-food-studies-program-h317)
  • World Food Forum, Ontario Chapter (Instagram: @wff_ontario_chapter)
  • The Coalition for Healthy School Food (https://www.healthyschoolfood.ca/ )

We at the council believe that creating and expanding across networks close to home is a key driver in promoting more sustainable food systems and strengthening communities. We believe that even small actions like mutual aid and learning from experts in food policy are key in achieving better food futures. As a voice for youth 30 and under in Toronto, we aim to inspire every person to be concerned with food secure futures. 

Image: United Nations, 2025 (https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/fast-facts-what-are-sustainable-food-systems/)

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