FAO and the Italian innovation global platform Seeds and Chips have joined forces to promote food innovation and education, with a strong focus on strengthening youth engagement and awareness-raising initiatives to fight hunger and malnutrition and achieve sustainable development.
FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva and Seeds and Chips Founder and Chairman Marco Gualtieri signed an agreement that culminates years of close cooperation and aims at redoubling efforts to build the Zero Hunger Generation.
“We are long-standing partners in many activities and share common concerns, particularly promoting youth’s engagement and active participation in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) using modern technology and ICTs to build a true Zero Hunger Generation,” the FAO Director-General said. “We are also working together closely to promote better and healthier food and diets, like the Mediterranean diet”.
To that end, Graziano da Silva stressed that in order to succeed in achieving sustainable food systems that provide healthy and nutritious food for everyone, it is key to engage the private sector.
Seeds and Chips is the organizer of one of the most prominent innovation events worldwide dedicated to highlighting young talents and cutting edge innovative solutions from around the world.
Original source: FAO
Published on 13 June 2019
