The annual State of Food Insecurity in
the world report would be unveiled at the forthcoming World Food Summit in Rome
with expectation it will provide new figures for the number of chronically
hungry people globally, reports NaijaAgroNet.
The meeting, NaijaAgroNet
reports, would also take stock of progress made towards achieving the
Millennium Development Goal (MDG1) as it kicks off on Wednesday, May 27, 2015.
NaijaAgroNet learnt that United Nations (UN) bodies slated to present their
reports include the three Rome-based food agencies, namely the International Fund
for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
and the UN World Food Program (WFP).
The
new hunger report, NaijaAgroNet gathered, would be
presented jointly at FAO’s headquarters by its Director-General José Graziano
da Silva, IFAD Associate Vice-President, Josefina Stubbs and Stanlake Samkange,
Director of WFP's Policy and Programme Division.
In
addition, Maurizio Martina Italy's Minister of
Agriculture, Food and Forestry Policies, NaijaAgroNet
learnt, would participate via videolink from EXPO 2015 in Milan.
This
year’s edition of State of Food Insecurity in the World (SOFI) contains
updated estimates of the number and proportion of hungry people in the world in
2015, the target year of the Millennium Development Goals.
It also offers analysis into what drives
successful anti-hunger programs, such as agricultural investments, in addition
to the growing importance of social protection schemes and the new challenges
presented by the increasingly protracted nature of crises, NaijaAgroNet also gathered.
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