FAO Food & Agriculture Organization [to 2 April 2016]

FAO Food & Agriculture Organization [to 2 April 2016]
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1-04-2016
UN General Assembly proclaims Decade of Action on Nutrition
The United Nations General Assembly today proclaimed a UN Decade of Action on Nutrition that will run from 2016 to 2025. FAO welcomed the decision, calling it a major step towards mobilising action around reducing hunger and improving nutrition around the world.

To reduce inequality, focus on hunger and extreme poverty
Absolute levels of hunger and poverty are the most dramatic issues when it comes to addressing inequality, FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva said today. “The most pressing priority in terms of inequality is to help those people that are still living in extreme poverty and suffering from hunger,” he said at the Special Meeting on Inequality held by the UN’s ECOSOC.
31-03-2016

FAO’s leader addresses UN Security Council on food and farming’s role amid conflicts
Improving food security can help build sustainable peace and even ward off looming conflict, as well as mitigating its impacts, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva told members of the United Nations Security Council.
29-03-2016