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Achieving Zero Hunger in Africa by 2025. Taking stock of progress

African Union High-Level Meeting, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 27 January 2018

Year of publication 2018

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 70 p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 978-92-5-130348-1

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Proceedings of the High-Level Meeting “Renewed Partnership to End Hunger in Africa by 2025-Five Years Later: Taking Stock of Progress and Lessons in Light of the Sustainable Development Goals”, which took place on 27 January 2018 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The event held on the margins of the 30th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Heads of State and Government of the African Union presented results of the progress made in the Implementation of the Malabo Declaration with particular emphasis on Commitment 3: Ending Hunger in Africa by 2025; and identified areas of success, as well as specific areas that need to be strengthened both at national and regional levels to drive actions towards the 2030 Agenda and particularly in the eradication of hunger.

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