EU, FAO contribute $70m to strengthen global partnership against hunger

Wed, Sep 26, 2018 | By publisher


Foreign

The European Commission, EU, and Food and Agriculture Organisation, FAO, have contributed 70 million dollars to scale up efforts to boost resilience to food crises and strengthen global partnership against hunger.

This is disclosed in a report released in New York on Wednesday at the ongoing UN General Assembly.

The report, which was e-mailed to News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja, said that the organisations had strengthened their partnership to boost the resilience of millions of people struggling with severe, prolonged or recurrent food crises around the world.

The report said that the partnership agreement signed by Neven Mimica, EU Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development and José Graziano da Silva, the Director-General of FAO, was a major contribution to the Global Network against Food Crises designed to promote sustainable solutions to food crises.

Mimica was quoted as saying in the report that the 70-million-dollar contribution had become imperative because it would further bolster the partnership and speed up the Network’s efforts to tackle hunger globally.

“In 2017, the Global Network against Food Crises allowed us to take concrete and concerted steps to mitigate food crises and avert famine in northern Nigeria, South Sudan, Somalia and Yemen. And we need to scale this up.

“This will, however, involve strengthening links between humanitarian, development and peace actors, as recommended by the UN Security Council Resolution 2417,’’ he said.

UN Security Council Resolution 2417 condemns the starvation of civilians as a method of warfare and it signals a shared ambition to prevent and eradicate conflict-induced hunger across the world.

Also speaking, Graziano da Silva said that the EU contribution would ultimately make hunger-stricken rural communities stronger in the face of emerging food crises, saying: “Investing in resilience is key to fighting hunger today and in the future’’. (NAN)

– Sept. 26, 2018 @ 13:19 GMT |

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