World Food Day Official Celebration 2022 North America

Join us for World Food Day on October 16!

This year, #WorldFoodDay is marked in a year where the world faces profound food security challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, compounded by inequality and armed conflicts. The world needs to take action.

With the theme ‘Leave no one behind. Better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life,’ the World Food Day 2022 campaign calls for global solidarity and action to transform agrifood systems in a bid to foster inclusive economic growth, address inequalities, increase resilience, and achieve sustainable development.

The summit is presented in partnership with Food Tank, Ohio State University, Ohio Food Policy Network, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and UN Environment Programme (UNEP). Hosted by WOSU-NPR. 

Register now to join us via livestream on October 16.

NOTE: In-person attendance is by invitation only. For more information, email Kenzie at [email protected].

Confirmed Speakers (in order of appearance):

Danielle Nierenberg, President, Food Tank

Michelle Moskowitz Brown, Ohio Food Policy Network and Executive Director of Local Matters.

Jocelyn Brown Hall, Director, FAO Liaison Office for North America

Dr. Kristina M. Johnson, President, Ohio State University

Marty Schlafen, Ohio Capital-Journal

Marion Nestle, New York University

Dan Glickman, Former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture

Taijuan Nichole Moorman, The Columbus Dispatch

Baldemar Velasquez, Farm Labor Organizing Committee

Alejandro Figueroa, WYSO-NPR 

Dr. Rattan Lal, World Food Prize Winner and College of Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Sciences, OSU

Denise Osterhues, Senior Director, Sustainability & Social, Kroger

Zia Ahmed, OSU Dining Services

Ariella J. Brown, BIPOC Farming Network (BFN), Agraria

Jennifer Garner, College of Medicine and John Glenn College of Public Affairs, OSU

Lela Klein, GEM city market

Bart Elmore, Department of History, OSU and author of Seed Money

Erin Edwards, Dining Editor, Columbus Monthly

Shoshanah Inwood, College of Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Sciences, OSU

Chef. Sangeeta Lakhani

 

And many more to be announced soon!