A flag raising ceremony was held on Friday to mark the 35th World Food Programme (WFP) day at the forecourt of the state-house in Accra.
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The FAO Director-General especially underlined the importance of investment in agricultural research and extension, rural infrastructure, education and natural resource management for breaking cycles of rural poverty.
Along with more pro-poor investments, we need to promote wider and deeper use of social protection programmes to lift people out of poverty permanently by ensuring people do not slip back into it.
Social protection programmes on their own were not enough to move people out of poverty, food insecurity or malnutrition, as they did not address the structural causes of these problems, FAO said in a statement. “This is why FAO chose social protection and agriculture as the theme this year”, he said. Nina said the strategy has set a framework for sustainable and comprehensive social protection for all Cambodians over a long term.
“We will not be able to deliver on the promise of the 2030 Agenda without rapid progress towards ending hunger and undernutrition”, he warned. Further, 73 percent of the world’s population has no access to adequate social security and a lot of them are from rural areas of developing countries.
He said the agricultural economy was an integral part of the general economy and there was the need to pay particular attention to farmers at the rural communities and make agriculture more market-oriented.
Ms Chimuka said the poor are vulnerable to hunger because they lack the income and assets required to help them meet their basic food and nutrition needs on a daily basis.
Summary: Food security with home-grown food grains can alone eradicate rural poverty and malnutrition since farming is the backbone of rural India. “The creation and the fruits of the Earth are God’s gifts for all people, who are also their caretakers and their beneficiaries”, the pope wrote in a letter.
Success in achieving the world’s new sustainable development goals- and becoming the Zero Hunger Generation – ultimately depends on all people and not just governments, Graziano da Silva said in offering praise for both the Charter of Milan and the EXPO fair’s food-centered theme.
Lying behind that state of affairs, the report argues, is the African rural poor’s continuing reliance on agriculture for their livelihoods and the high share of their expenditure that goes on food.
Its main goal is total eradication of hunger, starvation in the world.
Patrick suggested complementing the agricultural programme through empowering of small-scale family farmers by a social protection programme that would focus on “school feeding”.
Furthermore, the report stresses that the notion of social protection reducing people’s work effort is a myth. Rather, recipients often respond to social protection positively, including improving the nutrition and education of their children, relying more on home production rather than poorly paid wage work and also increasing their participation in existing networks such as funeral societies, a common form of risk management in many traditional communities.
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Speaking at a press conference in Rome, da Silva said that such programs had proven extremely useful in providing food to refugees in Somalia in the crisis conditions the country experienced in 2011.
