World Rural Development Day

Call for Participation: The World Rural Development Day – 6th July 2024

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Call for Participation


THE WORLD RURAL DEVELOPMENT DAY (6th July)

THEME

The THEME OF 2024 for the Celebration of the World Rural Development Day is

Let’s End Hunger by Making Food Affordable for All

To celebrate the world rural development day (6th July) plan your event and submit us at https://worldruraldevelopmentday.org/list-an-event/ . Your event can be either physical or online or both.

These events should be voluntary basis. You can organize your event or take actions throughout the year in 2024.

The World Rural Development Day Portal (https://worldruraldevelopmentday.org/) serves a vital purpose in promoting and advancing integrated rural development globally, aligning with the objectives or purposes of the World Rural Development Day: a platform to call for global attention for the urgency and importance of integrated rural development, urging stakeholders to take collaborative actions towards achieving the SDGs; inform and remind individuals of their role and responsibility in fostering integrated rural development as outlined in the SDGs; to celebrate and appreciate the invaluable contributions of rural areas; and finally to celebrate together and ensure that no one is left behind in the journey of integrated rural development.

You Can Organize Any Types of to Celebrate The Day

Why We Choose This Theme for The Year of 2024

Background of the Theme:

The theme of the year 0f 2024 is Let’s End Hunger by Making Food Affordable for All. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 2) – A GLOBAL COMMITMENT TO TACKLE UNDERNUTRITION AND HUNGER

2.1 By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round.

2.2 By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons.

The need for better nutrition was recognized in SDG 2, which aims to “end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture”. The goal acknowledges that efforts to combat hunger and malnutrition have advanced significantly since 2000. However, ending hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition for all will require continued and focused efforts, especially in Asia and Africa.

However, improving nutrition goes beyond SDG2. Success in nutrition is linked to each of the SDGs – improving nutrition is foundational to sustainable global development. Tackling malnutrition will have wide-reaching consequences for improving health and working to end poverty.

To make progress on sustainable development it is therefore essential to make progress on nutrition. Similarly, achieving this goal will depend on progress across many of the other SDGs, including those aimed at clean water and sanitation, renewable energy, education and gender equality. https://www.powerofnutrition.org/nutrition-and-the-sustainable-development-goals/

According to the report of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World:

  • It is estimated that between 690 and 783 million people in the world faced hunger in 2022. This is 122 million more people than before the COVID-19 pandemic. Nonetheless, the increase in global hunger observed in the last two years has stalled and, in 2022, there were about 3.8 million fewer people suffering from hunger than in 2021.
  • There is no room for complacency though, as hunger is still on the rise throughout Africa, Western Asia and the Caribbean. Indeed, it is projected that almost 600 million people will still be facing hunger in 2030.
  • This is 119 million more people than in a scenario in which neither the COVID-19 pandemic nor the war in Ukraine had occurred, and around 23 million people more than in a scenario where the war had not happened.
  • In 2022, 2.4 billion people, comprising relatively more women and people living in rural areas, did not have access to nutritious, safe and sufficient food all year round.

To achieve zero hunger by 2030, urgent coordinated action and policy solutions are imperative to address entrenched inequalities, transform food systems, invest in sustainable agricultural practices, and reduce and mitigate the impact of conflict and the pandemic on global nutrition and food security.