“NWe are in serious danger of facing a food access crisis now, and probably a food availability crisis next season. All of this has jeopardized our efforts to achieve the SDGs,” the FAO director-general said in a statement from the UN organization.
Dongyu thus called at the opening of the 2022 United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) in New York to expand food production at the national level, strengthen supply chains and food chains. agribusinesses with public and private sector engagement, to support smallholder farmers and households.
Livelihoods, agrifood systems and economies must be protected against future shocks, he urged, adding that increased sustainable productivity, enhanced capacities to deliver services and commodities and increased access innovative financial tools and digital services are needed to mitigate the effects of conflict on food insecurity.
“Timely food aid is needed, but more attention needs to be paid to local production of nutritious food,” he said. Only 8% of all emergency food security funding goes to support agricultural production, but investing in agriculture and rural livelihoods is seven to ten times more cost effective than traditional aid.
The FAO Director-General also highlighted the issue of food loss and waste. Current levels of lost and wasted food could feed an estimated 1.26 billion people a year.
The HLPF is the main United Nations platform for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals at the global level.
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