The Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) José Graziano da Silva has told world leaders at United Nations headquarters that zero hunger is the only guaranty for realization of the entire set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, NaijaAgroNet reports.
Information
from FAO stated that fourteen of the 17 new SDGs are related to FAO's historic
mission, the Director-General noted, adding that the second goal - which is
"to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote
sustainable agriculture" - must be urgently pursued as rapid progress on
that front is the key to the other goals, he added
"We
have given ourselves an enormous task,that begins with the historic commitment
of not only reducing but also eradicating poverty, hunger in a sustainable way.
We can only rest when we achieve zero hunger," Silva said.
NaijaAgroNet recalledthat the SDGs follow and expand on the Millennium
Development Goals, established in 2001 and ending this year, which set a hunger
reduction target that was met by more than half of the countries monitored by
FAO. But nearly 800 million people still suffer from chronic undernourishment.
A majority of the world's poor and hungry live in rural areas, and improving their livelihoods is the core challenge.
He also reminded world leaders that in the next 15 years an additional investment of 160 dollars, about N31,848per year per person living in extreme poverty is needed to end hunger, NaijaAgroNet learnt.
A majority of the world's poor and hungry live in rural areas, and improving their livelihoods is the core challenge.
He also reminded world leaders that in the next 15 years an additional investment of 160 dollars, about N31,848per year per person living in extreme poverty is needed to end hunger, NaijaAgroNet learnt.
Cyriacus Nnaji/GEE
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