The first World Food Day was celebrated - no, not celebrated, since there is not much to celebrate-about the increasing number of hungry people in the Third World countries - on October 16in 1981.I presume the FAO which started this annual event wished to focus world attention on the emerging crisis in global food situation and to influence events in the direction of greater food security. It is now almost ten years, since the first World Food Day deliberations took place; I wish therefore, to discuss the future of food security, especially in the Third World countries; the declining productivity of the earth because of increasing land and environmental degradation; and the widening gap between the rich industrialized countries and the poor developing countries, as well-as between the rich and the poor within a given developing country; and the impact of equity issues on food security, human environment and development.