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October 16 - Thank a Farmer
On this day in Labor History the year was 1979.
That was the day that the United Nation’s established the idea of holding an annual “World Food Day.”
The aim of the day is to bring global attention to the problem of hunger and to build international solidarity to fight the problem.
The first World Food Day was observed two years later.
One feature of the day is a teleconference, that brings together some of the world’s top experts in the fields of agriculture, nutrition and human rights.
Each year a different theme is chosen for the day.
For the first two years the theme was simply, “Food…
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