United Nations - Food security and nutrition should top development agenda after 2015

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Nutrition and food security should be the top development goal as the international community sets its priorities beyond 2015, the target date for a achieving the globally agreed anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), senior United Nations officials have stressed.

“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,” said José Graziano da Silva, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Opening the global consultation on hunger, food security and nutrition in the post-2015 development agenda, held in Rome on Monday, Mr. Graziano da Silva urged the international community to commit to the complete eradication of hunger in setting its development priorities beyond 2015. Halving the proportion of hungry people in the world by 2015 was among the targets within the
eight MDGs. Some 50 countries are on track to achieve this target, the Director-General noted. (...)

The article:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44133&Cr=food+security&Cr1=#.URvPmmc4Qoo

Sull'argomento:

http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/post2015/

http://www.corriere.it/ambiente/13_febbraio_14/onu-nazioni-unite-clima-rischio_a952c58a-7695-11e2-bad5-bab3677cbfcd.shtml

Per approfondire:

http://www.un.org/en/ecosoc/food/pdf/concept.note.pdf

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High-Level Consultation on Hunger, Food Security and Nutrition in the Post-2015 Development Agenda (4 April 2013 - Madrid, Spain):

http://www.worldwewant2015.org/food2015

http://www.iisd.ca/post2015/food/

http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/173531/icode/

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