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UN to launch new report on world hunger and nutrition
FAO headquarters, 15 September 2017, 12:30 CEST
Includes data on malnutrition and children from Rome-based UN agencies and new partners UNICEF and WHO
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On
15 September 2017, five UN agencies – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the UN World Food Program (WFP), the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)
and the World Health Organization (WHO) – will publish the first-ever consolidated UN report on progress towards eradicating hunger and malnutrition by 2030.
This new edition of
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World gives updated estimates of the number and proportion of hungry people on the planet and includes data for the global, regional, and national levels.
It offers a significant update on the shifting global milieu that is today affecting people's food security and nutrition, in all corners
of the globe.
This is the first time that UNICEF and WHO join FAO, IFAD and WFP in preparing the annual State of Food Security and Nutrition in
the World report. This change reflects the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) broader view on hunger and all forms of malnutrition. The report includes enhanced metrics for quantifying and assessing hunger, including two indicators on food insecurity
and six indicators on nutrition.
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It will be launched at a news conference at FAO’s headquarters on 15 September 2017.
The event will be webcast
live. Spanish and Italian interpretation will be provided.
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What: News conference to present
The State of Food Security
and Nutrition in the World 2017
When:
Friday 15 September 2017, 12:30 CEST
Who:
José Graziano da Silva, Director-General, FAO
Gilbert F. Houngbo, President, IFAD
David Beasley, Executive Director, WFP
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, WHO
(video message)
Anthony Lake, Executive Director, UNICEF
(via video link, TBC)
Where:
Sheikh Zayed Media Centre, FAO headquarters
Rome, Italy | Viale delle Terme di Caracalla (Metro stop Circo Massimo)
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