Xinhua, Rome :
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) opened a one-week meeting here yesterday with a call for more rights, equality and social protection in the fight against poverty and hunger.
Joining representatives from more than 190 countries, Italian President Sergio Mattarella said that the right to food should be a core component of the basic right to life, and that true peace will never be achieved unless poverty and malnutrition are vanquished.
Issues such as climate change, natural resource limits and food and energy insecurity have consequences that cross borders and will require policy makers to adopt a rights-based approach at key summits on development finance, greenhouse gas emissions and new United Nations goals later this year, he added.
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet stressed the need to foster efficient and inclusive food systems while urging governments to push back against rising calls for protectionism in international commodity markets and to broaden their anti-hunger programs to tackle new nutritional problems such as obesity.
Emphasizing the importance of gender equality when recalling Latin America’s success in reducing hunger over the past decade, Bachelet said women “hold the keys to food security.”
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) opened a one-week meeting here yesterday with a call for more rights, equality and social protection in the fight against poverty and hunger.
Joining representatives from more than 190 countries, Italian President Sergio Mattarella said that the right to food should be a core component of the basic right to life, and that true peace will never be achieved unless poverty and malnutrition are vanquished.
Issues such as climate change, natural resource limits and food and energy insecurity have consequences that cross borders and will require policy makers to adopt a rights-based approach at key summits on development finance, greenhouse gas emissions and new United Nations goals later this year, he added.
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet stressed the need to foster efficient and inclusive food systems while urging governments to push back against rising calls for protectionism in international commodity markets and to broaden their anti-hunger programs to tackle new nutritional problems such as obesity.
Emphasizing the importance of gender equality when recalling Latin America’s success in reducing hunger over the past decade, Bachelet said women “hold the keys to food security.”
