Five United Nations (UN) agencies have concluded plans to unveil
the first-ever consolidated UN report on progress towards eradicating hunger
and malnutrition by 2030, reports NaijaAgroNet.
These agencies include the Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development
(IFAD), and the UN World Food Program (WFP), the United Nations Children's
Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
NaijaAgroNet
gathered that the unveiling slated for FAO headquarters on Friday, September
15, this year, would see the new edition of The State of Food
Security and Nutrition in the World with updated estimates of the
number and proportion of hungry people on the planet and includes data for the
global, regional, and national levels.
“It offers a significant update on the shifting global milieu
that is today affecting people's food security and nutrition, in all corners of
the globe,” a source at UN disclosed to NaijaAgroNet.
This, NaijaAgroNet
further gathered is the first time that UNICEF and WHO join FAO, IFAD and WFP
in preparing the annual State of Food Security and Nutrition in the
World report.
NaijaAgroNet
reports that this change reflects the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
broader view on hunger and all forms of malnutrition. Stressing the report would
include enhanced metrics for quantifying and assessing hunger, including two
indicators on food insecurity and six indicators on nutrition.
