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Excellencies, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen,
I am pleased to join you today to celebrate World Water Week 2022.
Water is indeed life.
Life nourished through our food systems. It is little wonder then that 70% of global freshwater withdrawals are used for agriculture. That said, the relationship of food systems with water is broken:
- First, over-abstraction of water causes local and regional water insecurity and leads to water scarcity;
- Second, overreliance on rainfed agriculture makes us vulnerable to extreme weather events;
- and third, food waste and food loss, leads to wastage water and other resources.
Today, climate change, land degradation, uncontrolled urbanization and economic development, population growth,...
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Good morning, buenos dias in New York. Un saludo especial al nuevo Presidente Sr Mejía Montalvo, mis felicitaciones. My warm congratulations to you, Mr. Chairperson.
Allow me to start by thanking the organizers, FAO, PAHO, the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture and Ekta Parishad for the opportunity to jointly reflect with you today on the key relevance for all the SDGs and for global public goods of collective and tenure rights.
I hope you liked the video, and I am glad that we join today your collective effort to press forward on securing tenure rights for those who...
After four long days of policy debate, the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) adjourned its 50th Plenary Session (CFS 50) to reconvene as soon as possible and conclude deliberations on coordinating policy responses to the global food crisis informed by the 2022 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report (SOFI).
Convened as the first in-person plenary since 2019, CFS 50 saw record-high attendance by senior officials and high-ranking delegates and close to 40 ministers, vice-ministers and state secretaries from around the world. More than 1,500 delegates participated either live or on-line from among civil society,...
The UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) today concluded its 50th Plenary Session (CFS 50). The Plenary was first convened on 10-13 October 2022 and adjourned to a later date to conclude deliberations on coordinating policy responses to the global food crisis informed by the 2022 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report (SOFI).
The reconvened plenary on 19 December 2022 advanced global discussion towards addressing global hunger and malnutrition including on coordinating policy responses to the current and future food crisis. Members also endorsed new Policy Recommendations on Promoting Youth Engagement and Employment in...
10 October 2022, Rome - With the world facing a worsening food and cost-of-living crisis caused by the interlinked shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and armed conflicts - including in Ukraine - the Committee on World Food Security is this week convening its 50th Plenary session (CFS 50), 10-13 October 2022.
Organized in ‘hybrid’ format, the Plenary started with a special ministerial-level segment to focus on the state of food insecurity in the world and on fostering coordinated policy responses to the crisis.
It will be kicked off by a discussion of the 2022 State of Food...