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World Food Day sees call for bolder action to make healthy and sustainable diets available to all

Global ceremony in Rome highlights need to step up actions to make ending hunger and malnutrition in all its forms possible by 2030

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Date 10/16/2019

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1. Various of World Food Day exhibit

2. Wide of FAO building

3. Various of arrival of Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte

4. Photo op

5. Various meeting of Conte and Qu Dongyu, FAO Director General

6. Conte shaking hands with Rome mayor Virginia Raggi

7. photo op

8. Wide of speakers at World Food Day ceremony

9. Qu Dongyu, FAO Director General speaking

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Qu Dongyu, FAO Director General, “The theme for this year is “OUR ACTIONS ARE OUR FUTURE: HEALTHY DIETS FOR A ZEROHUNGER WORLD.” The theme combines two very important areas: Zero Hunger and Healthy diets: First, the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report (SOFI 2019) tells us that the total number of undernourished people in the world is increasing. More than 820 million people are going to bed hungry. It is important to note that, while the total number of hungry people is increasing, as the world population is growing quickly, the hunger rate is falling. But hunger is not only about undernourishment. It is also about having access to enough food, in quantity and quality, to meet the nutritional needs of people for a healthy life. This is the Zero Hunger concept; Second, overweight, obesity and its associated non-communicable diseases are also on the rise affecting over two billion people globally; Malnutrition in all its forms has a serious cost for individuals, families, communities and countries. Poor quality diets have become the single largest contributor to the global burden of disease and early death. The impact of malnutrition on the global economy is estimated at 3.5 trillion US dollars per year. Hunger and malnutrition will be major barriers to achieving the SDGs by 2030, if we do not act now!

11. Wide plenary hall

12. SOUNDBITE (English) Qu Dongyu, FAO Director General, “We have set a goal for ourselves to eradicate hunger and all forms of malnutrition by 2030. In moving forward towards achieving this, FAO has declared its biennial theme for 2020-2021, to be “Promoting healthy diets and preventing all forms of malnutrition”. With such a challenging goal, we all need to work together. We need strong political will and commitment. We need to invest in nutrition and for nutrition. We need to walk hand-in-hand and build healthy and sustainable food systems. My vision is that in the near future World Food Day will be the occasion to celebrate our achievement of eradicating hunger and malnutrition in all its forms. In the name of the FAO Family, I assure you of our full commitment to this noble goal.”

13. Cutaway

14. Conte speaking

15. SOUNDBITE ( Italian) Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, “We believe that collective and coordinated action between nations is the high road to tackling a global challenge such as hunger and the improvement of nutrition in the world ”

16. Cutaway to Rome mayor Virginia Raggi at the ceremony

17. SOUNDBITE ( Italian) Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte “For this reason the Italian government will continue to work at national and international level in defense of an integrated agricultural system that, while it produces, it also supports the planet and transmits cultural identity”

18. Cutaway

19. Wide Monseigneur Fernando Chica Arellano, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to FAO delivering the message from Pope Francis.

20. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Monseigneur Fernando Chica Arellano, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to FAO, “Battle against hunger and malnutrition will not end as long as the logic of the market prevails and profit is sought at any cost”

21. Cutaway

22. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Monseigneur Fernando Chica Arellano, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to FAO, “We must come to realize that we are accumulating and wasting is the bread of the poor”

23. Handshake between Monseigneur Fernando Chica Arellano and Qu Dongyu

24. Wide screening of video message of the UN Secretary-General António Guterres at the ceremony

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25. SOUNDBITE (English) UN Secretary-General António Guterres, “World Food Day is a global call for Zero Hunger -- for a world where nutritious food is available and affordable for everyone, everywhere. But today, more than 820 million people do not have enough to eat. And the climate emergency is an increasing threat to food security. Meanwhile, two billion men, women and children are overweight or obese. Unhealthy diets present an enormous risk of disease and death. It is unacceptable that hunger is on the rise at a time when the world wastes more than 1 billion tonnes of food every year. It is time to change how we produce and consume, including to reduce greenhouse emissions. Transforming food systems is crucial for delivering all the Sustainable Development Goals.That is why I will be convening a Food Systems Summit in 2021 as part of the Decade of Action to deliver the SDGs. As a human family, a world free of hunger is our imperative.

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26. Wide of ceremony

27. SOUNDBITE (English) David Beasley, Executive Director, World Food Programme (WFP), “In any given culture, in any given continent around the world that are starving to death and when every five seconds a child dies, we have failed humanity. But if you think about how much progress we have made about ”

28. Wide of ceremony

29. SOUNDBITE (English) David Beasley, Executive Director, World Food Programme (WFP), “Today only one out of nine, but to that one of nine we have more work to do, we cannot desert the list of these, we cannot desert those who are just like us, those who have hopes and dreams”

30. Wide of ceremony

31. SOUNDBITE (English) David Beasley, Executive Director, World Food Programme (WFP), “There is so much more that we can do, there is so much more that we will do, but we need your continuous support, from government to businesses, to the private sector of smallholder farmers, small farmers, large farmers. But you consumers out there I challenge you to eliminate food waste. Governments, NGOs Rome based agencies, United Nations, corporations, individuals, we have a lot of work to do, we’ve got a lot of young people, a lot of children all over the Earth that are depending on us, let’s not let them down. On this World Food Day let’s reinvigorate, inspire again, as we leave here, to take action all across the world. It never ends until every single child goes to bed no longer hungry and a very nutritional diet of that days. Thank you very much”

32. SOUNDBITE (French) Gilbert F. Houngbo, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development IFAD, “Our success will depend on the transformation of food systems at the global scale. Women, youth and indigenous people need to be taken into account. Besides being inclusive, this transformation must also be sustainable – at the environmental, social and economic level. It must ensure healthy food for all”

33. Wide of ceremony

Script 16 October 2019, Rome – At the global World Food Day ceremony today speakers called for bolder and faster action across sectors to make healthy and sustainable diets available and affordable for all.

This year’s World Food Day – with the theme “Our actions are our future. Healthy diets for a #ZeroHunger world” – takes place in the context of rising global hunger but also increasing overweight and obesity. FAO and its partners believe that affordable solutions to reduce all forms of malnutrition exist, but they require greater global commitment and action.

“Collective action is the high road to tackling a global challenge such as hunger in the world,” said Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in his keynote speech.

The Prime Minister gave reassurance of Italy’s support for a “vision of integrated agriculture that supports the planet and cultural identity”, and stressed the need to understand development “as a genuine international collaboration, as politics in the noblest sense” to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Both Conte and FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu welcomed an announcement by UN Secretary-General António Guterres of the convening of a UN Food Systems Summit in 2021 as part of the Decade of Action to deliver the SDGs. Conte proposed that Italy host the event, and was thanked by Qu for the offer.

In a World Food Day video message Guterres called rising hunger “unacceptable” as the world wastes more than 1 billion tonnes of food every year.

Pope Francis in a special message read out at the event, stressed that the “battle against hunger and malnutrition will not end as long as the logic of the market prevails and profit is sought at any cost”.

The pontiff urged for a cultivation of lifestyles inspired by gratitude, moderation and solidarity, and the need to promote economic institutions and social initiatives that support the poor.

“We must come to realize that we are accumulating and wasting is the bread of the poor,” Pope Francis added.

In his opening remarks, FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu warned how “hunger and malnutrition will be major barriers to achieving the SDGs by 2030 if we do not act now!”

The FAO chief stressed the importantce of collaboration and the role everyone needs to play - from governments, food companies, the public sector, research instituions to consumers – to make progress towards enabling healthy diets for all, and to halt and hopefully reverse the current trend of rising hunger, overwight and obesity.

“We need strong political will and commitment. We need to invest in nutrition and for nutrition. We need to walk hand-in-hand and build healthy and sustainable food systems,” added the FAO Director-General.

The FAO chief anounced the UN agency’s biennial theme for 2020-2021 - Promoting healthy diets and preventing all forms of malnutrition – and reaffirmed FAO’s committment to the gloabl goal of ending hunger and malnutrtion in all its forms by 2030.

In his remarks, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Gilbert F. Houngbo said: "We can reach our commitment to end hunger. Our success will depend on transforming global food systems so that they are inclusive of women, youth and indigenous peoples. So that they are sustainable – environmentally, socially, and economically. And so that they contribute to healthy diets for all. With the right policies and the right investments in agricultural and rural development we can create a food secure world where both hunger and poverty are dramatically reduced."

David Beasley, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP) for his part said, echoed the call to end food waste and urged individuals around the world to join WFP’s campaign to #StopTheWaste: “The amount of food wasted globally is enough to feed 2 billion people, so in a world where every five seconds a child dies from preventable causes like hunger and malnutrition this is totally unacceptable. We have a solution to hunger in our hands, just by being better stewards of the food we already have. If we all come together, and work together, we can achieve Zero Hunger - but we must not rest until every child, everywhere, goes to bed with a full stomach.”

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