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Joint Statement of the Group of 77 and China
53rd Committee on World Food Security

Madam Chair, distinguished delegates, 

The Group of 77 and China wishes to thank FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP, and WHO for the publication of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025 (SOFI), on the margins of the Second United Nations Food Systems Summit Stocktake (UNFSS+4) in Addis Ababa, a fundamental input to guide our collective actions toward zero hunger.

We take this opportunity to thank Ethiopia for successfully hosting the UNFSS+4 in Addis Ababa from 27-29 July 2025.

We further wish to recognize that the Summit provided an opportunity to assess progress, renew global solidarity to advance food systems transformation as a cornerstone of sustainable development and accelerating sustainable, inclusive, and resilient food systems transformation and to reach the collective goal of achieving zero hunger by 2030.

The 2025 SOFI report confirms that important progress has been achieved: the global prevalence of hunger has shown a slight decline, and advances have been observed in key nutrition indicators, such as reductions in child stunting and increases in exclusive breastfeeding. These achievements reflect joint efforts and policies which, in various regions of the Global South, are yielding results.

Nevertheless, SOFI also warns that millions of people still lack access to adequate food, particularly in contexts of protracted crises, climate vulnerability, conflict, and structural constraints.

Across the regions that comprise the G77 & China, the findings of SOFI 2025 are manifested differently, yet with common challenges:

• In Africa, food insecurity remains the most severe and deeply rooted challenge, with growing needs for increased investment, enhanced resilience, and expanded social protection measures.
• In Asia, major challenges persist in ensuring access to nutritious and affordable diets, although notable progress has been achieved in reducing hunger across several sub-regions.
• In the Near East, ongoing conflicts, water scarcity, famine, and the escalating impacts of climate variability have further undermined the stability and sustainability of local food systems.
• In Latin America and the Caribbean, while progress is noted in social and nutrition policies, persistent inequality and economic volatility continue to jeopardize the food security of millions.

Madam Chair,

The Group of 77 and China wishes to underscore four priorities:

First, financing. International financing for food security remains significantly below the levels required to address the growing impacts of natural disasters and climate variability on food systems. Droughts, floods, cyclones, and soil degradation are eroding food availability, disrupting production, raising prices, and hindering access to healthy diets.

Recovery measures alone are not sufficient: we need anticipatory investment, proactive efforts that prioritize combating famine, enhancing soil resilience, supporting small-scale producers and family farmers, improving rural infrastructure, establishing early warning systems, and expanding social protection. Mitigation may include efforts to reduce emissions linked to production systems and food loss and waste in a way that food production is not threatened.

In Spain, within the framework of the Seville Commitment adopted in July 2025, Member States reaffirmed the urgency of closing the financing gap for sustainable development, mobilizing additional and innovative resources, addressing the cost of debt, and reforming the international financial architecture to ensure more predictable and efficient flows toward developing countries.

We therefore issue a clear call for those commitments to translate into new, additional, and sustainable resource flows, with mechanisms that guarantee predictability, simplified access, concessional terms, and special attention to the most vulnerable countries in our regions. Only in this way will we be able to respond effectively to the dual challenge of adapting to growing risks and mitigating the impacts that are already undermining food security and nutrition across the G77 & China.

Second, cooperation. South-South and triangular cooperation are strategic tools for sharing knowledge, technologies, and successful experiences. We hereby request that necessity to establish a repository of good practices, enabling our Member States to identify, systematize, and replicate effective solutions to improve food systems and advance toward zero hunger.

Third, the need for a conducive international environment for advancing food systems and achieving zero hunger. We emphasize that unilateral measures that restrict trade, including unilateral trade related environmental measures such as carbon border adjustment mechanisms - as well as any other actions that, while not against international law, nonetheless restrict trade exacerbate food and nutrition insecurity. Acknowledging these factors is essential to addressing them justly within this Committee.

We reaffirmed that the imposition of coercive economic measures, including unilateral sanctions, against developing countries does not contribute to economic and social development, including dialogue, cooperation and understanding among countries.

Fourth, with the growing role of emerging technologies in realizing the right to food, we call for increased participation and access to developing countries to emerging technologies including Artificial intelligence and further expand capacity building programs in agro-technology.

Finally, Madam Chair,

As Member States of the Group of 77 and China, we reaffirm our shared commitment with the CFS to collaborate towards urgent, coordinated, and effective action. We pledge to work together with the Committee to translate its policy instruments into concrete actions. We also reaffirm our readiness to continue to integrate its work with those of national commitments, climate plans, nationally determined contributions, and international agreements, in accordance with national priorities, circumstances and capabilities;

We urge all our economies to mobilize, implement, and report on resources allocated to food security, nutrition, and climate action, in alignment with the work of the CFS. With solidarity, South-South cooperation, transparency, we can turn commitments into tangible realities for our populations, especially those most exposed to the impacts of climate variability and food insecurity.

Thank you.