UN Chief António Guterres' Message on World Food Day 2025

The Global Hunger Crisis

• 🌍 Despite past advances, recent crises show that progress in defeating hunger cannot be taken for granted.
• 😔 Around the world, 673 million people still go to bed hungry each night, with many more facing daily food uncertainty.
• 📈 Global progress is too slow, and in some regions, it is reversing.

Emerging Challenges and Weaponization of Hunger

• ⚠️ New challenges have emerged, including soaring obesity and climate shocks that threaten food security.
• 💔 Shamefully, hunger is being weaponized, with people in conflict situations facing starvation and famine.

Call to Action for Food Systems

• 🤝 This year's World Food Day theme, "Hand-in-hand for Better Foods and a Better Future," is a call for solidarity across borders, sectors, and communities.
• 🎯 This echoes priorities from the Food Systems Summit Stocktake and the United Nations Call to Action, which outlines six key areas for action.
• 🚀 The message urges collective action to build food systems that nourish people and protect the planet.