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The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Qu Dongyu, today told hundreds of delegates in FAO’s Plenary Hall that there was an acute need for renewed investment to end hunger and malnutrition by 2030, as envisaged under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). FAO / RAI

A holistic, coordinated approach is urgently needed to transform agri-food systems and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. This was the call made by the QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to world leaders participating in the opening of the Pre-Summit of the UN Food Systems Summit. FAO / RAI - UN POOL

The Thai Horizontal Mechanical Engineering Company (HMEC) attached to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan have created agricultural demonstration plots at the Yei Checkpoint in the capital of Juba in an effort to teach residents of the three surrounding communities how to successfully grow food by which they can feed themselves with what they have. UNMISS

The Government of Italy has made an additional (USD) 2 million contribution to fund the Productive Sectors Development Programme (PSDP) that seeks to boost job creation, access to economic opportunities for women and youth, development and strengthen governance to boost economic growth in Somalia. UNSOM

“Nearly one in three people in the world, 2.5 billion people didn’t have access to adequate food in 2020,” the FAO Chief Economist told reporters in New York on Monday, while his counterpart from the WFP called for investing in “changing people’s lives and in minimizing conflict.” UNIFEED

There was a dramatic worsening of world hunger in 2020, the United Nations said Monday (12 Jul) – much of it likely related to the fallout of COVID-19. While the pandemic’s impact has yet to be fully mapped, a multi-agency report estimates that around a tenth of the global population – up to 811 million people – were undernourished last year. FAO

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ( FAO) Director General Qu Dongyu and the G20 Presidency, Italy's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Luigi Di Maio, spoke after the G20 meetings held in Matera in Italy, highlighting needs and actions to eradicate hunger and poverty. G20 / RAI

Briefing reporters during the virtual launch of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO’s) Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems Report, the FAO’s Indigenous People’s Unit Chief, Yon Fernández de Larrinoa, said, “indigenous peoples food systems are disappearing at an alarming rate, resulting from displacement, violence, climate change, extractive industries, and intensive agricultural livestock,” and “unless new policies are put in place to support them, they will be a major loss for humankind in the next years.” UNIFEED

The UN Country Representative in Nigeria, Edward Kallon, warned today that the country is currently at a crossroad to a critical food insecurity which could result in famine should appropriate action not be taken now while asking urgently the international community for USD 250 million to avert the worse. UNTV CH

With the recognition of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis and more than 34 million people already facing emergency levels of food insecurity, the world leaders urgently addressed the problem at the G7 summit last weekend and endorsed a Famine Prevention Compact. UNTV CH