October 16 World Food Day – Safe • Smart • Sustainable: When Food and Finance Walk Hand in Hand
The Citizen Advocate Summary: Declaring
April 11 as Safe ePay Day
Proposing April 11 as Safe ePay
Day to mark UPI’s pilot launch on April 11, 2016, by NPCI with 21 banks,
initiated by Dr. Raghuram G. Rajan in Mumbai. This initiative celebrates UPI’s
seamless integration of banking and merchant payments.
October 16 – Appeal No 141
April 11 – Declare ‘Safe ePay
Day’,
Yes, April 11 is vacant in the UN
Observance Day calendar
UPI 10th
Birthday -April 11 2026 – 177 Days to Go
October 16 World Food Day – Hand
in Hand for Better Foods and a Better Future
World Food Day 2025 marks FAO’s
80th year, celebrating sustainable agrifood systems. Discover how the proposed
Safe ePay Day mirrors this harmony — Safe • Smart • Sustainable.
October 16 World Food Day – From
Food Security to Financial Security: Safe • Smart • Sustainable
🌾 FAO @
80 – Hand in Hand for Better Foods and a Better Future
Every
year on October 16, the world unites under a common goal — to ensure
that no one is left behind in the pursuit of food security and a sustainable
future. This year’s World Food Day 2025 carries special significance: it
marks the 80th anniversary of the Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations (FAO).
The theme
— “Hand in Hand for Better Foods and a Better Future” — calls for
collective action across borders, communities, and generations. It reminds us
that food is not just nourishment; it is the foundation of peace, prosperity,
and dignity.
Across
150 countries, people are organizing marathons, kitchen garden demonstrations,
school programs, art contests, and culinary exhibitions — all echoing FAO’s
message that when we work hand in hand, we cultivate both hope and harvest.
🌍 FAO’s 80-Year
Journey – Seeds of Progress
Since its
founding in 1945, FAO has been at the heart of humanity’s efforts to defeat
hunger. From soil preservation to modern agritech, its mission has always been
about restoring balance — between people and planet.
The #FAO80
celebrations stretch across a full year of global engagement, storytelling, and
collaboration. Through “Stories from the Field,” FAO showcases the
resilience of farmers, innovators, and communities working toward a sustainable
agrifood system — one that can feed 10 billion people by mid-century without
exhausting the planet’s resources.
The Food
and Agriculture Museum and Network, opening in Rome this year, adds another
milestone — a living, learning space that connects art, science, and policy to
inspire the next generation of “food citizens.”
💬 The Bridge
Between Food Security and Financial Security
Just as
FAO speaks of food systems, the digital era has given rise to a new form
of trust system — one that connects our wallets, businesses, and
everyday exchanges. Here enters the proposed observance of Safe ePay Day
(April 11) — a people-powered initiative advocating for secure,
inclusive, and joyful digital payments.
Both
journeys — from food security to financial security — share the
same DNA: collaboration, transparency, and sustainability.
When we
pay safely, we build the same foundation that FAO’s farmers and food heroes
uphold — fairness, accountability, and shared growth.
In that
spirit, the support line for this year’s joint observance — “Safe •
Smart • Sustainable” — brings both worlds together.
🌱 Safe • Smart
• Sustainable – The Shared DNA
Safe
Just as
farmers ensure their crops are protected from drought, pests, and uncertainty,
digital citizens must ensure that their payments are safe from fraud and
misuse. A secure transaction, like a well-stored harvest, builds resilience.
Smart
Smart
agriculture and smart payments both rely on innovation. Whether it’s using AI
to predict soil quality or employing biometric authentication in UPI or net
banking, technology becomes the trusted ally of progress.
Sustainable
Sustainability
is the bridge between today’s actions and tomorrow’s stability. Reducing food
waste and minimizing data misuse both serve the same goal — to preserve value.
Together,
these three words — Safe, Smart, Sustainable — are not slogans. They’re
habits of harmony that link two observances born from the same human
aspiration: a world where essentials and earnings are equally protected.
🕊️ From Hand to Hand – A Symbol of Trust
This
year’s World Food Day visual underlines the profound symbolism of the hand
— one offering a seedling, another passing digital trust.
Across FAO’s campaign and the Safe ePay movement, the “hand in hand”
gesture captures both physical cultivation and digital collaboration.
A
seedling represents nourishment.
A digital transaction represents empowerment.
Both are acts of faith in the future.
As the golden
Fibonacci curve flows across this appeal’s visual, it reflects natural
proportion — the same pattern found in shells, sunflowers, and stock charts. It
reminds us that balance, whether in nature or finance, is not random — it’s
designed.
🧠 Lessons
from #FoodHeroes for #DigitalCitizens
FAO’s #FoodHeroes
— from farmers in Nagaland teaching kitchen gardening to youth in Indonesia
organizing Run for Local Food — showcase what happens when individuals
take ownership of a collective cause.
Likewise,
#DigitalCitizens can be the heroes of financial sustainability —
promoting secure transactions, reducing online fraud, and nurturing trust in
digital systems.
Both
movements share a singular truth:
Real
progress begins when awareness becomes action.
💳 The Joy of Safe ePayments – Beyond Transactions
Safe ePay
Day doesn’t just celebrate the technology of payments — it celebrates the
emotion of trust.
Each secure click, each verified transaction, each honest refund strengthens
the social fabric that holds our digital economy together.
Just as
the FAO’s efforts ensure no one goes hungry, Safe ePay Day aims to ensure no
one feels unsafe while paying. It transforms the act of payment into a moment
of confidence — a small, joyful victory for digital citizens everywhere.
“When
food is safe and payments are secure, the future is assured.”
🧩 Connecting Observances – A Citizen’s Vision
World
Food Day and Safe ePay Day are distinct in subject but unified in spirit.
Both believe in a shared responsibility — that what we consume and what we
transact must uplift, not exploit.
FAO’s
motto of “better production, better nutrition, better environment, better
life” finds its financial echo in Safe ePay’s “better access, better
awareness, better assurance.”
By
linking these two observances, we extend FAO’s call for sustainability into the
digital era — where every secure ePayment becomes a seed of trust in the
ecosystem of everyday life.
📣 A Call to
Citizens
On this October
16, as communities gather across continents to celebrate World Food Day,
let us also nurture the idea that food security and financial security are
interdependent.
- Grow food sustainably 🌾
- Pay digitally, securely 💳
- Share knowledge generously 🌍
Together,
we can make both our plates and our payments Safe • Smart • Sustainable.
🍽️💳
Nayakanti Prashant
Citizen Advocate – Safe ePay Day
🌿💳🧠🌍Appeal for
Safe ePay Day 🌟
## Call to
Action
I urge governments,
financial institutions, businesses, and communities worldwide to join hands in
declaring April 11 as **Safe ePay Day**.
Let’s celebrate
UPI’s milestone by making **Safe ePay Day** a global movement for secure,
innovative fintech.
Together, we can
build a future where financial access is universal, and every e-payment is
safe—starting with **Safe ePay Day** in 2026.
No Vada Pav,
not even one bite,
Till SafeePay Day takes off in flight.
Quirky vow with a Mumbai flair—
Announce the date, and I’ll be there!
📌 References
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Nayakanti, P. (2025, September 7). September 07
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Page and One Payment at a Time. Medium.
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2.
Nayakanti, P. (2025, August 13). 218th Lalbagh
Flower Show via RV Road Interchange! Innovation in Banking.
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Prashant
Nayakanti. (n.d.). LinkedIn profile. Retrieved September 2025, from
https://in.linkedin.com/in/prashantnayakanti
Disclaimer: The
only Joy is ‘Joy of Safe ePayments. Nothing More – Nothing Less
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