This year’s World Food Day celebration is highlighting the concrete ways in which agricultural cooperatives and producer organizations help to provide food security, generate employment, and reduce poverty. The theme for the October 16 event is “Agricultural cooperatives: key to feeding the world”. The UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) is paying special tribute to cooperatives for working against hunger and overcoming market and policy constraints by providing their members access to a range of assets and services. In Ghana, producer groups, cooperatives, farmer organizations as well as agricultural partners are commemorating the day in the Central region. FAO-Ghana Country Representative, Musa Saihou Mbenga, in a statement observed that the structure of the Ghanaian agricultural system is changing rapidly, hence the need for independent producers to vertically coordinate their production through the agricultural system to maximise returns. “Cooperatives comprise an important and growing part of this changing agricultural industry. Due to the singularity of member owned-member managed, cooperatives have the ability to solve various market problems facing the agricultural producers”, he said. The World Food Day has the objectives of encouraging attention to agricultural food production and to stimulate national, bilateral, multilateral and non-governmental efforts to this end; encourage economic and technical cooperation among developing countries; and encourage the participation of rural people, particularly women and the least privileged categories, in decisions and activities influencing their living conditions. It is also a day to heighten public awareness of the problem of hunger in the world; promote the transfer of technologies to the developing world; and strengthen international and national solidarity in the struggle against hunger, malnutrition and poverty and draw attention to achievements in food and agricultural development.