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Security Council: FAO DG on Global Food Security
The head of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today called for greater funding for agriculture to ensure there’s available and accessible food in crisis situations, noting that conflict “remains the single greatest driver of hunger.”
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STORY: FAO / QU GLOBAL FOOD SECURITYTRT: 2:40SOURCE: UNTVRESTRICTIONS: NONELANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATSDATELINE: 19 MAY 2022, NEW YORK CITY
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1. Wide shot, Security Council2. Med shot, delegates at Council table3. SOUNDBITE (English) Qu Dongyu, Director-General, FAO:“Worldwide, prosperity is being reversed. There is less food security, less health security, less income and greater inequality. My message today is more relevant than before: agriculture is one of the keys to lasting peace and security.”4. Med shot, delegates at Council table5. SOUNDBITE (English) Qu Dongyu, Director-General, FAO:“Conflict remains the single greatest driver of hunger. Between 2018 and 2021, the number of people in crisis situations in countries where conflict was the main driver of acute food insecurity increased by a staggering 88 percent, to just over 139 million.”6. Med shot, delegates at Council table7. SOUNDBITE (English) Qu Dongyu, Director-General, FAO:“We must prevent the acceleration of acute food insecurity trends in the coming months and years. Food production at the country-level must be expanded. We need to provide cash and critical inputs for cereal and vegetable production; and to protect livestock with treatments, vaccinations, feed and water. Agrifood supply chains and value chains must be strengthened with engagement of public and private sector in support of smallholder farmers and households8. Wide shot, Security Council9. SOUNDBITE (English) Qu Dongyu, Director-General, FAO:“We must protect people, agrifood systems and economies against future shocks. To prevent the impacts of conflict on food insecurity, we must increase sustainable productivity; strengthen capacities to deliver relevant services and commodities; and provide access to innovative financial tools and digital services. Members urgently need to transform their agrifood systems to be more efficient, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable for better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life – leaving no one behind.”10. Wide shot, Security Council
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The head of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today called for greater funding for agriculture to ensure there’s available and accessible food in crisis situations, noting that conflict “remains the single greatest driver of hunger.”
“My message today is more relevant than before: agriculture is one of the keys to lasting peace and security,” FAO Director-General QU Dongyu told a UN Security Council debate in New York entitled “Maintenance of International Peace and Security – Conflict and Food Security.”
Despite its critical importance, Qu noted that only 8 percent of total funding for the humanitarian food security sector goes to agriculture. Meanwhile, the war in Ukraine risks adding to the already rising number of people threatened by food insecurity around the world.
“Worldwide, prosperity is being reversed. There is less food security, less health security, less income and greater inequality,” Qu said.
In 2021, the number of people experiencing acute food insecurity rose to nearly 193 million, up 40 million from 2020, and is set to increase further this year, according to the Global Report on Food Crises. Afghanistan, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen are all facing risks of famine.
The latest rise is the result of several factors, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis.
“Conflict remains the single greatest driver of hunger,” Qu said. “Between 2018 and 2021, the number of people in crisis situations in countries where conflict was the main driver of acute food insecurity increased by a staggering 88 percent, to just over 139 million.”
The war between Russia and Ukraine, two of the world’s biggest suppliers of wheat and sunflower oil, has disrupted exports and logistics and seriously affected food availability. In addition, the increase in energy and fertilizer prices is putting the next global harvest at risk.
According to FAO’s latest scenarios, the conflict could increase chronic undernourishment by an additional 18.8 million people by 2023.
FAO reached more than 30 million people worldwide with emergency agricultural assistance and resilience-building programmes in 2021. In Afghanistan, for example, FAO supplied 3 million people with wheat cultivation packages that cost just USD 160 each and meet the staple cereal requirements for a family of seven for an entire year. In Ethiopia, despite access challenges, the seeds and planting materials provided by FAO and Agriculture Cluster partners allowed local farmers to produce 900,000 tonnes of food – five-times more than the humanitarian and commercial food supplies that entered the region.
To prevent the acceleration of acute food insecurity trends in the coming months and years, Qu stressed the importance of expanding food production at the country-level by providing cash and critical inputs for cereal and vegetable production; as well as protecting livestock with treatments, vaccinations, feed and water.
“Agrifood supply chains and value chains must be strengthened with the engagement of the public and private sector in support of smallholder farmers and households,” he said.
Qu also called on the global community to allocate new resources to sustain agricultural production in challenging contexts and to invest more in innovation and new technologies, especially in water management, and in more transparent market information systems.
“Members urgently need to transform their agrifood systems to be more efficient, more inclusive, more resilient, and more sustainable for better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life – leaving no one behind,” Qu said.
The meeting in New York was chaired by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (the United States is the current holder of the rotating Security Council Presidency) and also saw the participation of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the Executive Director of the World Food Programme, David Beasley.
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