Excellencies,<\/p>\n
Mr. President of the General Assembly,<\/p>\n
Ms. Deputy Secretary General,<\/p>\n
Distinguished Guests,<\/p>\n
it is my pleasure to\u00a0extend a warm welcome to\u00a0each and\u00a0every one\u00a0of you today,\u00a0to\u00a0engage in a discussion on\u00a0\u201cAddressing Global Food Insecurity and Famine Risk: Reinforcing Collective Impact\u201d.<\/p>\n
Let me begin by\u00a0expressing\u00a0my\u00a0sincere\u00a0gratitude to our co-sponsors, namely the\u00a0Permanent Mission of Brazil and\u00a0the Permanent Mission of\u00a0Uganda, the Delegation of the European Union, FAO and WFP\u00a0for their\u00a0invaluable collaboration\u00a0in organizing this\u00a0significant\u00a0event.<\/p>\n
A special thanks to the President of the General Assembly, Ambassador Dennis Francis,\u00a0and to the\u00a0Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, Amina Mohammed,\u00a0for being here\u00a0with us today,\u00a0underscoring the paramount importance the entire UN system places on\u00a0this crucial topic.<\/p>\n
We will hear your remarks in a moment.<\/p>\n
As we\u00a0convene\u00a0today,\u00a0following the launch of the annual Global Report on Food Crises\u00a0last week,\u00a0we confront one of the most pressing challenges of our time.<\/p>\n
As indicated in the report,\u00a0the world has witnessed a disturbing rise in\u00a0food insecurity\u00a0over the last years, exacerbated by impact of the pandemic,\u00a0conflicts, climate change,\u00a0and\u00a0economic instability.<\/p>\n
It is staggering that more than\u00a09.2 per cent of\u00a0the world population, almost 800 hundred million people,\u00a0is\u00a0facing chronic hunger.<\/p>\n
Despite our collective efforts, we must do more and we must do better.<\/p>\n
Italy\u00a0is deeply committed to tackling this\u00a0multifaceted challenge, including in\u00a0our capacity of\u00a0Chair of the Group of Friends on Food Security and Nutrition\u00a0here in New York,\u00a0and as\u00a0current\u00a0Presidency of the G7.<\/p>\n
At the\u00a0core\u00a0of our approach\u00a0lies\u00a0the\u00a0acknowledgment\u00a0that food insecurity is not just a consequence of food scarcity, but also of unequal access, distribution, and utilization.\u00a0Our efforts must encompass increasing food production,\u00a0but also improving food systems, enhancing\u00a0sustainability, localization,\u00a0resilience, and addressing the root causes of hunger and malnutrition.<\/p>\n
Food insecurity is at the same time a humanitarian and development imperative. We\u00a0need to implement immediate actions on food crises on the humanitarian side, while working on short-medium-and-long term development strategies for improving food systems globally.<\/p>\n
Today, let\u00a0us\u00a0reiterate\u00a0our collective commitment to\u00a0confront\u00a0food insecurity with urgency, determination,\u00a0innovation\u00a0and\u00a0solidarity.<\/p>\n
I thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Excellencies, Mr. President of the General Assembly, Ms. Deputy Secretary General, Distinguished Guests, it is my pleasure to\u00a0extend a warm welcome to\u00a0each and\u00a0every one\u00a0of you today,\u00a0to\u00a0engage in a discussion on\u00a0\u201cAddressing Global Food Insecurity and Famine Risk: Reinforcing Collective Impact\u201d. Let me begin by\u00a0expressing\u00a0my\u00a0sincere\u00a0gratitude to our co-sponsors, namely the\u00a0Permanent Mission of Brazil and\u00a0the Permanent Mission of\u00a0Uganda, […]","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6394,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6391\/revisions\/6394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}