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Zero Hunger in Latin America
and the Caribbean-Turning Commitment into Action
25 June 2019, Rome--- Latin America and the Caribbean was the first region worldwide committing to completely eradicate hunger by 2025. Latin America and the Caribbean still faces significant challenges to achieve the “Zero Hunger” Objective of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Currently, 3.9 million of children under five years are overweight. In adults, overweight affects 360 million of people of which 104.7 million are obese.
The side event is an opportunity to recognize and make visible the main elements that helped to reduce substantially the prevalence of food insecurity in the region, and take advantage of the lessons learned to develop new strategies and proposals to achieve zero hunger in the most backward territories.
The side event is an opportunity to recognize and make visible the main elements that helped to reduce substantially the prevalence of food insecurity in the region, and take advantage of the lessons learned to develop new strategies and proposals to achieve zero hunger in the most backward territories.
(07:11)Statements by José Graziano da Silva, FAO Director-General (in Spanish); (16:48) Guadalupe Valdez, FAO Special Goodwill Ambassador for Zero Hunger for the Region of Latin America and the Caribbean (in Spanish); (27:15) H.E. Víctor Manuel Villalobos Arámbula, Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development of Mexico (in Spanish); (42:23) Floor discussion (in English and Spanish) and closing remarks by Julio Berdegué, Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Realizador:
FAO
Referencia:
12542
