World Food Day, October 16

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. World Food Day is an international day celebrated every year worldwide on October 16 to commemorate the date of the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in 1945.

The FAO launched what would become the FAO Money and Medals Programme (MMP) in 1968. FAO issued collector art medals in various series to bring attention to FAO's goals and missions. This program was responsible for over a hundred medal designs issued to the collecting public. Eric P. Newman collected these pieces and over time accumulated a thick file of related materials.

Images: 1986 World Food Day medal

Link to Newman papers on the United Nations Food & Agricultural Organization Money and Medal Programme:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/archivedetail/543559#