FAO NEWS RELEASE - www.fao.org Press Conference on 4 June to launch The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2013 New SOFA report finds global malnutrition costs unacceptable, urges priority action Journalists are invited to a press conference on 4 June to launch the latest edition of FAO’s flagship publication The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA), devoted this year to Food Systems for Better Nutrition. The Report calls for priority action to combat malnutrition through changes in national and international food systems, noting that vitamin and micronutrients deficiency together with obesity and overweight exact social and economic costs running into trillions of dollars a year. SOFA will be introduced by a recorded video message from FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva. What: Press Conference to launch The State of Food and Agriculture 2013 – Food Systems for Better Nutrition When: Tuesday 4 June 2013, at 1030 AM Where: Sheikh Zayed International Media and Knowledge Centre, FAO HQ Who: SOFA will be presented by Daniel Gustafson, FAO Deputy Director-General, Operations; Kostas Stamoulis, Director, FAO Agricultural Development Economics Division. The Press Conference will be webcast at http://www.fao.org/webcast/ Journalists who are unable to attend may still submit questions during the Press Conference by emailing [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Tools for journalists & editors Photo requests: (+39) 06 570 53082 / 53393 or [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Video material/b-roll: (+39) 06 570 55980 or [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Audio clips: (+39) 06 570 53223 RSS feed<http://www.fao.org/news/rss-feed/en/> of FAO news releases FAO's online newsroom<http://www.fao.org/news/newsroom-home/en/> Follow FAO on Twitter<http://www.fao.org/news/fao-twitter-accounts/en/> Additional tools<http://www.fao.org/news/newsroom-journalists/en/> This media advisory was issued by the Media Office at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). To unsubscribe from this news service click the link below or send an email to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> with "signoff Media-G-Eng-L" as the only text in the message body. You can also manage your subscription online, here<https://listserv.fao.org/cgi-bin/wa>. To recieve news releases in plain text format rather than HTML, contact us. FAO | Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy | (+39) 06 570 53625 | www.fao.org<http://www.fao.org> ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the Media-G-Zh-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(Media-G-Zh-L,SIGNOFF);