FAO / MDG AWARDS

UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recognizes Chile, China and Morocco as the latest in a growing list of countries to reduce hunger, but urges stronger efforts to eradicate undernourishment. FAO

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Production Date: 16 June 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION - FAO
• Subject Topical: MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
• Geographic Subject: MOROCCO; CHILE; CHINA
• MAMS Id: 1127283

Description

STORY: FAO / MDG AWARDS
TRT: 2:05
SOURCE: FAO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 16 JUNE 2014, ROME, ITALY

Shotlist

1. Various shots, exterior FAO headquarters in Rome
2. Wide shot, FAO meeting room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Graziano da Silva, FAO Director-General:
“Ladies and gentlemen, from this award, we are seeing political commitment of governments being transformed into effective action and concrete results in the fight against hunger. These efforts are also supported by non-state actors and the international community. They show that food security for all can be a reality in our lifetime.”
4. Wide shot, cutaway
5. Wide shot, FAO Director-General presents award to Carlos Furche, Minister for Agriculture of Chile
6. Wide shot, cutaway
7. Wide shot, FAO Director-General presents award to Aziz Akhannouch, Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries of Morocco
8. Wide shot, cutaway
9. Wide shot, FAO Director-General presents award to HE Xiaohua Chen, Deputy Minister for Agriculture of China
10. Wide shot, cutaway

Storyline

Chile, China and Morocco have been recognized by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization for outstanding progress in the fight against hunger, an achievement that sees them join a growing group of countries to have reached international targets ahead of the 2015 deadline for all Millennium Development Goals.

During a ceremony at FAO headquarters, the Organization's Director-General, José Graziano da Silva, awarded diplomas to China and Morocco for obtaining the Millennium Development Goal 1 (MDG-1). Chile, which had already reached its MDG-1 target, received the diploma for achieving the 1996 World Food Summit (WFS) target.

The MDG-1 hunger target requires countries to halve the proportion of hungry people in the population before the end of 2015 compared to the level in 1990. The more ambitious WFS goal requires countries to at least halve the number of hungry people in the population before the end of 2015 compared to the level in 1990.

Chile's Minister of Agriculture Carlos Furche, Morocco's Minister of Agriculture and Marine Fisheries, Aziz Akhannouch, and China's Vice Minister of Agriculture, Chen Xiaohua, represented their respective countries at the ceremony.

The WFS goal was set in 1996, when 180 nations met in Rome to discuss ways to end hunger. The MDG 1 target was established by the international community at the UN General Assembly in 2000.

During the ceremony, the FAO chief also commended 16 countries for having maintained their hunger rates below 5 percent dating back to at least 1990: Argentina, Barbados, Dominica, Brunei Darussalam, Egypt , Iran (Islamic Republic of), Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates.

Awards are based on statistics produced by FAO using data provided by member countries and other international agencies.