ROME: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Monday warns that climate change and conflict are consequences and drivers of poverty, income inequality and food prices.
Guterres was also told in a meeting in Rome that the world’s food system produced a third of all greenhouse gas emissions.
The same system is responsible for as many as 80% of the loss of biodiversity, he regrets the video message.
The meeting was called to help prepare the UN food system summit to be held in September in New York.
Earlier this month, a UN report noted that up to 161 million more people face starving last year compared to 2019, with many widespread ones that are likely related to Covid-19 pandemics.
“Poverty, income inequality and high food costs continue to maintain a healthy diet of around 3 billion people,” said Guterres.
“Climate change and conflict are consequences and drivers of this disaster.” International funds for agricultural development calls for decision makers “to overcome failure in the food system” which leaves hundreds of millions of poor and hungry.
IFAD is a UN body that aims to help small-scale agriculture.
IFAD said the food system must be “radically changed” to ensure access to affordable and healthy food, where food production “protects the environment and biodiversity, and where people producing our food are well paid for their labor.” It added that “the needs of rural communities must be in the middle”.
By 2020, 811 million people face hunger, according to the UN report earlier this month.
Guterres said preparatory work in Rome would help regulate the tone for this decade’s actions and for recovery “fair and sustainable from Covid-19”.
Such efforts bring a substantial monetary price label.
The Chief of Economist from Roma-based food and agricultural organizations said that eliminating 100 million people from chronic malnutrition will require an additional $ 14 billion (almost 12 billion euros) every year to 2030 and almost three times the amount of the United Nations to achieve the PBB goals.
Zero hungry in 2030.
According to the UN projection, the aim will be passed by a margin of nearly 660 million people, with around 30 million from that number possible “related to the eternal effect of the pandemic.”