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ROME / SUSTAINABLE NUTRITION DAY TWO
STORY: ROME / SUSTAINABLE NUTRITION DAY TWO
TRT: 02:58
SOURCE: FAO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 2 DECEMBER 2016, ROME, ITALY
1. Pan left, Queen Letizia and FAO Director-General Graziano da Silva walking
2. Cutaway to photographers and cameramen
3. Various shots, photo op in front of flag of the United Nations
4. Crowds at the lobby as the Queen Letizia of Spain walking pass
5. Wide shot,Queen Letizia walking into symposium venue
6. Med shot, Queen Letizia walking to her seat
7. Wide shot, Graziano da Silva speaking on stage
8. Close up, Graziano da Silva speaking on stage
9. Wide shot, Queen Letizia in audience
10. Zoom out, Queen Letizia applauding
11. Wide shot, Graziano da Silva walking down from the stage
12. SOUNDBITE ( English ) Kostas Stamoulis, FAO Assistant Director-General, Economic and Social Development Department:
“There is a fundamental recommendation that is coming out of this (Symposium) is that it enhances the food systems approach and the diets approach to nutrition. If we want to address all forms of malnutrition in the world, from hunger to under-nutrition, to over-nutrition, obesity, we have to focus on food systems and we have to focus on diets.”
13. Wide shot, symposium
14. SOUNDBITE ( English ) Kostas Stamoulis, FAO Assistant Director-General, Economic and Social Development Department:
“For a long time, we have been concentrating on basic staples. This is good, a lot of people need better access to basic staples, but we should start focusing also on other foods. We should also focus on creating a food environment for the consumer, which is at the same time affordable, accessible, both economically and physically, so that consumers can actually find the healthy food they need to eat for a healthy diet.”
15. Various shots, event “Engaging with Chiefs for Healthy Diets”
16. SOUNDBITE ( English ) Jenny Chandler, FAO Ambassador for the International Year of Pulses, Europe:
“Well I think first ditch the junk food, cook things from scratch, no they don’t have to be difficult things, they can be quite simple food, go back to eating as our forefathers did their way and remember that nowadays because we lead much more sort of sedentary lives, not to eat too many calories . So it’s kind of eating vegetable-based dishes, lots of pulses, lots of wholegrains, not completely cutting out meat or fish, or even you know a bit of sugar, but it’s just balance.”
17. Various shots, Queen Letizia at photo exhibit about healthy diets and nutrition
Queen Letizia of Spain, FAO’s Special Ambassador for Nutrition, joined more than 600 experts, international civil servants, lawmakers, academics and members of civil-society and private-sector groups in attending the International Symposium on Sustainable Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Improved Nutrition in Rome today.
The two-day meeting allowed for information sharing and deeper analyses of the principal tasks the world faces – and some of the successes that have been achieved – in tackling contemporary dietary challenges, as well as the presentation of strategies to overhaul the way food is produced, processed and distributed.
Queen Letizia, an active nutrition campaigner, participated in the session reviewing the outcomes of the symposium’s working groups, which emphasized the importance of coordinating efforts in the fight against all forms of malnutrition and the promotion of sustainable diets, deemed essential in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Graziano da Silva said the symposium was held to “push for the implementation of commitments made during the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) and to support member states.
Kostas Stamoulis, Director, Strategic Program Leader, Food Security and Nutrition, FAO said focus on food systems and healthy diets are keys to addressing malnutrition.
Stamoulis said “for a long time, we have been concentrating on basic staples. This is good, a lot of people need better access to basic staples, but we should start focusing also on other foods. We should also focus on creating a food environment for the consumer, which is at the same time affordable, accessible, both economically and physically; so that consumers can actually find the healthy food they need to eat for a healthy diet.”
The International Symposium on Sustainable Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Improved Nutrition (1-2 December) looks at country-level challenges and successes to shed light on effective approaches to reshaping food production, processing, marketing and retail systems to better tackle the problem of malnutrition, which blights the lives of billions of individuals and can trap generations in a vicious cycle of poverty and malnutrition.
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