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World hunger on the rise again, reversing 25 years of progress

4/7/2017

 
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​FAO Conference focuses on sustainable rural development as a response to conflict, climate change and migration
 
The number of hungry people in the world has increased since 2015, reversing 25 years of progress, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva told member states today at the opening of the agency's biennial conference.   
 
Graziano da Silva stressed that almost 60 percent of the people suffering from hunger in the world live in countries affected by conflict and climate change.
 
FAO currently identifies 19 countries in a protracted crisis situation, often also facing extreme climatic events such as droughts and floods.
 
FAO has signaled high risk of famine in northeast Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen with 20 million people severely affected.
 
The livelihoods of these mostly rural people have been disrupted and “many of them have found no option other than increasing the statistics of distress migration,” Graziano da Silva said.
 
“Strong political commitment to eradicate hunger is fundamental, but it is not enough,” he said. “Hunger will only be defeated if countries translate their pledges into action, especially at national and local levels.”
 
“Peace is of course the key to ending these crises, but we cannot wait for peace to take action” and FAO, the World Food Program and the International Fund for Agricultural Development are all working hard to assist vulnerable people, he said. "It is extremely important to ensure that these people have the conditions to continue producing their own food. Vulnerable rural people cannot be left behind, especially youth and women.”
 
He addressed the FAO Conference (3-8 July), the organisation's highest governing body which reviews and votes on the programme of work and budget and discusses priority areas related to food and agriculture. Some 1,100 participants will attend the meeting, , including one head of state, one prime minister, 82 ministers and numerous representatives from international organisations, the private sector and civil society.
 
FAO's top priorities for the next two years include promoting sustainable agriculture, climate change mitigation and adaptation, poverty reduction, water scarcity, migration and the support of conflict-affected rural livelihoods as well as ongoing work on nutrition, fisheries, forestry and Antimicrobial Resistance.
 
Broad support and need for action
 
The prospect of the worst food crisis since the Second World War - affecting northeastern Nigerian, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen - means “we mustn't be resigned but make renewed and extraordinary efforts,” said Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni delivering the keynote speech.
 
He described the UN's Zero Hunger objective as a way to achieve peace, justice and equality and preserve the world for the future.
 
Gentiloni appealed to all of Europe to share Italy's burden of large-scale arrivals in his country, in order to be “faithful to its own history, principles and civilisation.” But development efforts must go beyond responding to emergencies, he said.
 
“We cannot save people by putting them in camps," insisted Graizano da Silva. "To save lives, we have to save their livelihoods.”
 
Pope Francis expressed strong support for FAO's agenda, emphasizing the need for solidarity and recognition of human rights.  "We are all conscious that the intention to assure all their daily bread is not enough - it is imperative that we recognize that everyone has the right to food," the pontiff said in remarks delivered by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican's Secretary of State.
 
The pontiff also announced he will visit FAO in person on the occasion of World Food Day on the 16th of October.
 
Achim Steiner, who headed the United Nations Environment Programme for a decade until 2016 and is currently Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, gave the McDougall Memorial Lecture honouring the Australian economist who was an effective advocate for FAO's creation.
 
Agriculture may account for only 4 percent or global gross domestic product but its real role is far greater and spans “extraordinary narratives” about people, land and their cultures, Steiner said in a lecture focused on the future agricultural economy in the wake of the Paris Agreement on climate change. Inadequate policy and budgetary attention to a sector currently affected by high levels of waste and the erosion of natural resources, reflects a "high-risk strategy", he said.
 
For photos, audio clips, video material & b-roll, contact: (+39) 06 570 53625 or FAO-newsroom@fao.org

SOURCE: FAO/PACNEWS

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