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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

“If we ignore the challenges and needs of rural people in the world’s poorest countries, our attempts to create more equitable and sustainable food systems are doomed to fail,” said the President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) ahead of the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit that begins in Rome on Monday. IFAD

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 IMF announced today that the United States economic growth is expected to be around seven percent in 2021 and around five percent in 2022 in a press briefing led by the IMF’s managing director Kristalina Georgieva and the United States mission chief Nigel Chalk. IMF

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

“An exceptional and dangerous heatwave is breaking in northwestern United States of America and western Canada,” where the all-time Canadian temperature record was broken twice within 24 hours, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported on Tuesday. UNTV CH