Syracuse, ITALY – Agriculture ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) countries met here and reiterated their broad commitment to make agrifood systems more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable, to improve global food security and nutrition and explicitly noted that sustainable agrifood systems can help address the climate crisis and biodiversity losses.
Without greater levels of financing and upscaled actions, “the world will continue to be off track towards ending hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030 – or any time soon thereafter,” QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), told the ministers, along with the European Commissioner for Agriculture, the African Union Commissioner for Agriculture and the heads of major multilateral and international organizations.
At a Friday session on “Profitable, resilient, equitable and sustainable agrifood systems”, Qu presented some of the stark findings as compiled in the latest FAO flagship report, The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024 (SOFI).
About 733 million people faced hunger in 2023, or 9.1 percent of the world’s population, and that number is projected to de