October 16 World Food Day

World Food Day is celebrated every year around the world on 16 October in honor of the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 1945.

This year, the theme of World Food Day is “Change the future of migration. Invest in food security and rural development”.

FAO organizes a series of events in order to raise awareness and ensure that all people in the member states have access to sufficient, safe, and fair food. Each year, a number of projects are undertaken within the framework of the selected theme. The purpose of the FAO-funded projects in our country is to create employment in the agriculture sector and maintain the sustainability of food production.

Wars and migrations are the main factors that put food safety at risk, followed by climate change, and the resulting scarcity of the world’s natural resources such as water and soil, as well as a rise in the global human population, and different nutrition models, all of which endanger the sustainability of food production.

Our Undergraduate Gastronomy and Culinary Arts Program students at the School of Applied Sciences at Özyeğin University are offered a multi-disciplinary education which is engineered to help them see the adventure of food from earth to plate from the perspective of agriculture, economy, nutrition and food sciences, cultural heritage, culinary arts, tourism and service sector. Our students recognize and appreciate the importance of food sustainability, and they are prepared as well-educated graduates who can fulfill any tasks they are assigned within the sector.

Our students are also provided with a unique perspective to minimize food loss during consumption and to re-cycle and re-use food waste, along with finding solutions to the challenges faced during food production.

Food serves as roof that shelters many stakeholders underneath, and it is our mutual responsibility to manage, distribute, and consume the limited global food supply in the best way possible. To this end, we wish all responsible consumers a happy World Food Day, and emphasize that sustainable food is a fundamental need.

We are celebrating October 16 World Food Day with our Campus Garden project which was launched with the initiative of our students.

School of Applied Sciences Undergraduate Gastronomy and Culinary Arts Program

Assoc. Dr. Özge Samancı
Asst. Assoc. Aslı Zuluğ
Asst. Assoc. Celale Kırkın

Le Cordon Bleu Director of Turkey

Defne E. Tüysüzoğlu