High-Level Task Force on Global Food Security to Focus on Five Objectives

 

of Zero Hunger Challenge, Secretary-General Announces

 

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

This morning, the Secretary-General chaired a meeting of the High-Level Task Force on Global Food Security.

The Secretary-General welcomes the strong outcome from Rio+20 on food and nutrition security.  Following the launch of the Zero Hunger Challenge last week, the High-Level Task Force will be reoriented to focus on the Challenge’s five objectives as a guide for a coherent United Nations system approach to food and nutrition security.

The Secretary-General noted that since it was established in 2008, the Task Force had made progress in devising a common comprehensive framework for action for the United Nations system in food and nutrition security, particularly during recent food crises.  It helped forge united positions among its member agencies in Rio and at the G-8 and G-20 summits.  The High-Level Task Force also supports the Committee on World Food Security as the primary governance body for food and nutrition.

But with close to 1 billion people still experiencing chronic hunger, he urged agencies, Governments, businesses, civil society organizations and the scientific community to eliminate hunger in our lifetimes.

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