The UN urged countries to use data, creativity and technology, including AI, to ensure everyone, everywhere, has access to safe, nutritious and cheap food, with food being a basic human right. Last year, some 645 million people suffered hunger, and nearly 2.7 billion could not afford a healthy diet.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a message for World Food Day that overlapping shocks and crises are adding to these pressures, disrupting production and supply chains, and pushing up the cost of food and fertiliser, making nutritious diets even further out of reach for millions. We have the knowledge, technology and the capability to feed the globe. Time to put it to use.”
Guterres called on leveraging data, innovation and technology, including artificial intelligence, to ensure everyone has access to nutritious food, bringing together scientists, researchers, innovators, farmers, Indigenous peoples and youth to find solutions, and mobilising finance to make nutritious food more available and affordable, particularly in developing countries. World Food Day is observed yearly on 16 October. This year the day was observed under the theme “Innovate Today.
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