FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia

World Food Day convoy 2024

Budapest (Hungary), 16/10/2024

More than 20 partner companies will join the nineteenth food donation convoy marking World Food Day 2024. Matching this year’s theme ‘Right to foods for a better life and a better future’, the heavy vehicles will roll through Budapest carrying food donations for needy families.

The event will feature high-level representatives of FAO, the Hungarian Food Bank Association, and the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture, as well as renowned Hungarian chefs, who’ll be greeting the trucks at Hosok tere, and offer diverse, seasonal and healthy food at the related press encounter.

About World Food Day

Collective action across 150 countries worldwide, in up to 50 languages, is what makes World Food Day one of the most celebrated days of the UN calendar. Hundreds of events and outreach activities bring together governments, municipalities, businesses, CSOs, the media, the public, even youth. They promote worldwide awareness of hunger and promote action for the future of food, people and the planet.