Kina, Chile og Marokko er nu med i klubben af lande, som har halveret antallet af sultende indbyggere inden måldatoen i 2015 – men 840 millioner på verdensplan er stadig underernærede, advarede FAOs chef og målet er også at løfte dem op til en værdig tilværelse.
ROME, 16 June, 2014: (FAO): China, Chile and Morocco have won recognition from FAO for outstanding progress in fighting hunger, an achievement that sees them join a growing group of countries to have reached international targets ahead of an end-of-2015 deadline.
During a ceremony at FAO headquarters, the Organization’s Director-General, José Graziano da Silva, awarded diplomas to China and Morocco for obtaining the Millennium Development Goal 1 (MDG-1 = 2015 Målene).
Chile, which had already reached its MDG-1 target, received the diploma for achieving the 1996 World Food Summit (WFS) target.
The MDG-1 hunger target requires countries to halve the proportion of hungry people in the population before the end of 2015 compared to the level in 1990.
The more ambitious WFS goal requires countries to at least halve thenumber of hungry people in the population before the end of 2015 compared to the level in 1990.
“One year ago we celebrated the first 38 countries that had achieved the MDG target, three years in advance of the 2015 deadline. 18 of them had also met the World Food Summit target. Now we come together to recognize three more countries for their efforts,” Graziano da Silva said.
“In a world of abundant food….”
The FAO-boss stressed that the overall global objective remains the total eradication of hunger and malnutrition.
“Even today, in a world of abundant food over 840 million people are still undernourished,” the FAO Director-General said. “Ensuring food security and helping people overcome extreme poverty are the first steps to build the inclusive future we want, in which nobody is left behind,” he added.
Chile’s Minister of Agriculture Carlos Furche, Morocco’s Minister of Agriculture and Marine Fisheries, Aziz Akhannouch, and China’s Vice Minister of Agriculture, Chen Xiaohua, represented their respective countries at the ceremony.
The WFS goal was set in 1996, when 180 nations met in Rome to discuss ways to end hunger. The MDG 1 target was established by the international community at the UN General Assembly in 2000.
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