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FAO / NOBEL LAUREATES ALLIANCE
STORY: FAO / NOBEL LAUREATES ALLIANCE
TRT: 2:22
SOURCE: FAO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /ARABIC /NATS
DATELINE: 11 MAY 2016, ROME, ITALY
1. Wide shot, meeting room
2. Various shots, Yunuz and Karman signing
3. Various shots, Sanchez and Williams signing
4. Wide shot, meeting room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jose Graziano da Silva, Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“We look forward to learning from your wisdom and experience and drawing from your guidance on how FAO can become more effective in nurturing peace. As I have said before, we at the FAO believe that there is no food security without peace and there is no lasting peace without food security.”
6. Wide shot, podium
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate:
“I think we have come a long way just to tal;k about hunger and simple food. We should be looking for food which is healthy food, providing us basic nutrition, as human beings. So that’s a challenge that this alliance is all about and we are going to accomplish that – we are going to accomplish that because we have to integrate everything that we know. The technology part of it. How to bring the technology into it. How to redesign the institutions to make it happen.”
8. Wide shot, podium
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Betty Williams, 1976 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate:
“If we can make this work, we can take a step for humanity which will be massive.”
10. Wide shot, podium
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Tawakkol Karman, 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate:
“Fighting poverty and hunger means that we are on the right track to build a world, which is just, a world in which everybody works together, to build a fair world, in which the earth is everybody’s home and humanity is our nation.”
12. Various shots, photo op, laureates with director general
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) teamed up with four Nobel Peace Prize laureates to form an alliance in order to build a relationship that understands and reinforces the fact that peacebuilding and food security go hand-in-hand.
The four laureates are Muhammad Yunus, Oscar Arias Sánchez, Tawakkol Karman and Betty Williams.The purpose of the Alliance is to collectivize the efforts of these Nobel Peace Laureates to help ensure that food insecurity will not be the cause of further conflict. However, in the event of crises, the food systems in place will display a higher level of resilience with a greater chance of meaningful impact.
After a ceremonial signing, Jose Graziano da Silva, Director-General of the FAO said “we look forward to learning from your wisdom and experience and drawing from your guidance on how FAO can become more effective in nurturing peace.”
Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist and civil society leader, was awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his ground-breaking work in the use of microcredit and microfinance to build economic and social development in poorer countries.
Oscar Arias Sánchez, former President of Costa Rica, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his efforts to end the civil wars that plagued Central America at the time. His peace plan was approved by Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua.
Tawakkol Karman is a Yemeni women’s rights activist and advocate for peace. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for her work in the non-violent struggle for the safety of women.
1976 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Betty Williams is a Northern Irish activist for peace. She co-founded the Community of Peace People, to campaign against violence and discord between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland in the 1970s.
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