Og den omfatter ikke kun bekæmpelse af underernæring med også af overvægt, så dagsordenen kommer til at omfatte alle verdens nationer – også de rige i industribælterne; det må prioriteres øverst efter 2015, mener de.
ROME, 13 February 2013: A global multi-stakeholder consultation to discuss the world development agenda beyond 2015 has called for food security and nutrition to be the central element in future development efforts.
New development objectives should be established for the entire global community.
This means, that new development objectives should be agreed upon not just for developing countries but for the global community as a whole.
For example, universal targets on eliminating malnutrition in all its forms (not just undernutrition, but also obesity = fedme /overvægt) should be set for both rich and poor countries.
The one-day consultation on Hunger, Food Security and Nutrition in the Post-2015 Development Agenda stressed that food security and nutrition represent the cornerstone for progress on other development fronts such as employment, education, the environment and health and in achieving a quality future for humankind.
The consultation process is being co-led by FAO (FNs Fødevare- og Landbrugsorganisation) and the World Food Programme, in close collaboration with IFAD (FNs Fond for Landbrugsudvikling) and Bioversity International, with the Governments of Spain and Colombia also playing a lead role.
This meeting was preceded by an on-line consultation and will be followed by a high level consultation in Madrid on April 4th, co-hosted by Spain and Colombia.
The results of the consultation will help shape the new sustainable development goals in the post-2015 agenda.
The Rome meeting emphasized that sustainable development goals should strongly complement poverty eradication efforts when it comes to food security and nutrition.
Hunger eradication
FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva urged the international community to commit to the complete eradication of hunger in setting its development priorities beyond 2015 – the target date for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs = 21015 Målene) adopted in 2000.
“In line with the UN Secretary-General’s Zero Hunger Challenge, and in close collaboration with our development partners, we agree that nothing less than the eradication of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition is what we should be striving for,” he told the consultation.
Hunger was an integral part of the first of eight MDGs and one of the targets was halving the proportion of hungry people in the world by 2015. Some 50 countries are on track to achieve this target, he noted.
Amir Abdulla, Deputy Executive-Director of WFP, urged nations “to continue to strive together to make hunger the world’s number one solvable problem”.
Carlos Serè, Chief Development Strategist of IFAD, emphasized that “investing in the sustainable development of rural areas and in inclusive rural growth,” with a focus on smallholder (småbønders) agriculture, is critical for global food security and to the whole post-2015 agenda.
Building blocks
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