A globe-spanning video and poster contest is asking the world's children to help highlight how climate change is making the task of feeding a growing world population all the more challenging.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the UN asks children what humanity can do to meet that challenge.
The number of people on the planet is expected to grow to over 9 billion by 2050, and FAO estimates that global food production will need to increase by 60 percent to keep up with all the new mouths to feed.
Meanwhile, the world's small scale and family farmers — who produce much of the world's food — are among those being hit hardest by higher temperatures, droughts, and weather related disasters associated with climate change.
The FAO has picked "Climate is changing. Food and agriculture must change too," as the theme of World Food Day 2016 (WFD 2016), which will be celebrated on 16 October.
The World Food Day poster and video contest aims to give children an opportunity to explore this theme.
Children will be urged to express their ideas about the relationship between climate change, the food people eat, and the causes of hunger — and share them with others.
Children and teens aged 5 to 19 are encouraged to learn about the WFD 2016 theme and use their imagination to digitally design, draw or paint a poster that explores it.
The deadline for entries is 30 September 2016.
