United Nations chief Antonio Guterres urged nations to revamp their food priorities Thursday, saying the world needed food systems that safeguard the environment.



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United Nations chief Antonio Guterres urged nations to revamp their food priorities Thursday, saying the world needed food systems that safeguard the environment.

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UN head says world must change food priorities to save planet

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres urged nations to revamp their food priorities Thursday, saying the world needed food systems that safeguard the environment.
"The war on our planet must end and food systems can help us build that peace," the Secretary-General told a UN summit in New York.
Guterres said food systems "can and must play a leading role" in meeting the UN's sustainable development goals by 2030.
The goals include ending poverty,…

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United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said food systems 'can and must play a leading role' in meeting its sustainable development goals by 2030.

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Ghana is set to participate in the United Nations Food (UN) Systems Summit to be convened by the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres on September 23, 2021, in New York.
The summit is seen as part of urgent efforts by governments to realize the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.At the summit, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo is expected to make a commitment statement affirming Ghana’s pathways to realizing a transformed, resilient an…

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Every day, hundreds of millions of people go to bed hungry. Three billion people cannot afford a healthy diet. Two billion are overweight or obese and yet 462 million, are underweight. Nearly a third of all food that is produced, is lost or wasted.

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More than 500 civil society groups boycotted the United Nations Food Systems Summit in New York for giving corporations an outsized role in framing the agenda. We speak with ​​leading food advocates in Ethiopia, India and the United States, who lay out their concerns: Million Belay, general coordinator of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa; Raj Patel, journalist and research professor at the University of Texas at Austin; and Shalmali G…

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WHO is announcing support to two collaborative multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder coalitions: 1) on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems, and 2) the School Meals Coalition.

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Large corporations and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation took over the United Nations Food Systems Summit, abandoning small farmers on behalf of Big Ag companies and endangering food sovereignty. Video by La Vía Campesina North America, Nils McCune, and Camila Escalante On September 23rd, the United Nations holds its Food Systems Summit in New York. Under the guise of the UN system, and despite sleight-of-hand language about “equal opportuniti…

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Hundreds of civil society groups, academics and social movements are boycotting the first UN global food summit. Groups representing thousands of small-scale farmers and Indigenous communities are among those to withdraw from Thursday’s event. Some have criticized the prominence of corporations, such as Nestlé, Tyson and Bayer, in the summit.

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