The FAO director provided an overview of the challenges facing contemporary food production and nutrition and a vision of how they can be overcome. Quoting the words of the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg who in recent days dismissed the speeches of world leaders on climate as “bla bla bla”, Qu Dongyu he explained the commitments of the FAO to move “from blah blah blah to concrete action”
The general director of the FAO, the Chinese Qu Dongyu, outlined the four improvement objectives defined by the FAO in its strategic framework within the 2030 Agenda: better and targeted production, better nutrition, better environment and better life.
Objectives described as interconnected macro areas that need coordinated international policies.
«The current agri-food systems – he said – are not working. Too often they create harmful vicious circles ». AND Qu then urged governments to adopt stimulus policies that harness the power of innovation, technology and big data..
In this context,
Covid was a warning signal about the fragility of food security, but it also proved to be an opportunity to reassess how we address the remaining causes of hunger and build resilience against threats to better
rebuild.
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