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Add to Preferred SourcesThere’s still time to deliver on the global pledge to eradicate hunger but “urgent measures” are needed to reverse the recent increase in the number of hungry people, speakers at the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) said.
“There is no time to lose,” FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva told the opening assembly of the week-long CFS meeting. Failure to eradicate hunger will undermine all the Sustainable Development Goals, meaning “poverty will not be eradicated, natural resources will continue to degrade, and forced migration will continue to rise,” he added.
The CFS, open to the civil society, the private sector and other stakeholders, and is the foremost inclusive international and intergovernmental platform for policy coherence and convergence on food security and nutrition.
“CFS must step up, lead the discussions, provide guidance, and deliver concrete policies on nutrition,” Graziano da Silva said.
This year’s CFS sessions cover improving food systems and nutrition, Right to Food guidelines, as well as more than 50 side events focusing on issues ranging from climate change and urbanization to rural women, land tenure, food processing, agroecology, and livestock management.
CFS delegates will discuss voluntary guidelines on food systems and nutrition this week and expect to finalize by 2020.
Original source: FAO
Published on 15 October 2018