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ROME / WORLD FOOD DAY
STORY: ROME / WORLD FOOD DAY
TRT: 5:54
SOURCE: FAO
RESTRICTION: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: 16 OCTOBER 2018, ROME, ITALY
1. Wide shot, FAO building
2. Close up, UN flag
3. Various shots, arrival of King Letsie III of Lesotho, FAO Goodwill Ambassa-dor for Nutrition
4. Various shots, arrival of Queen Letizia of Spain and FAO Special Goodwill Ambassador for Nutrition.
5. Wide shot, arrival of Neven Mimica, Commissioner for International coop-eration and Development, European Union
6. Wide shot, plenary hall
7. Wide shot, H.E. Monseigneur Fernando Chica Arellano, Permanent Ob-server of the Holy See to FAO to deliver the message from His Holiness Pope Francis.
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Monseigneur Fernando Chica Arellano, Perma-nent Observer of the Holy See to Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“The struggle against hunger urgently demands generous financing, the abolition of trade barriers and, above all, greater resilience in the face of cli-mate change, economic crises and warfare.”
9.Wide shot, tilt down from flags to speakers
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Monseigneur Fernando Chica Arellano, Perma-nent Observer of the Holy See to Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“To pass from words to action in order to eradicate hunger requires not only political decision-making and effective planning. It is likewise necessary to overcome a reactive approach by allowing room for a more proactive vision.”
11. Wide shot, pan left from Ifad president to FAO Director-General
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Queen Letizia of Spain and Special Goodwill Ambassador for Nutrition, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“We have to overhaul the global food system. It’s a titanic task, for sure, and it’s one that requires everyone – in all areas, all levels – in the human com-munity on this planet to get involved. There’s no distinction between devel-oped and developing countries here. Everyone has to be committed.
13. Wide shot, delegate from US listening
14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Queen Letizia of Spain and Special Goodwill Ambassador for Nutrition, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“Never before has nutrition been given such priority. We have to take ad-vantage of the initiatives of FAO, and of the WHO, with the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition. We have to get the private sector on board. We have to make sure health education is part of school curricula, from child-hood through adolescence. We need consumers to bolster their role and make sure they know what they buy and eat.”
15. Med shot, cutaway to audience
16. SOUNDBITE (English) José Graziano da Silva, Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“We need to put in place food systems that provide healthy and nutritious food that are accessible and affordable for everyone.”
17. Wide shot, plenary hall
18. SOUNDBITE (English) King Letsie III of Lesotho, Goodwill Ambassador for Nutrition, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“Rural diets are also gradually shifting away from traditional, healthy and or-ganic food to those that are more common in urban centres. This alarming acceleration of obesity, clearly shows that a whole of a society’s effort is re-quired to overcome the problem, in a similar manner as was done with the public health challenges of HIV AIDS and malaria.”
19. Close up, cutaway of screen showing UN Secretary-General message
20. SOUNDBITE (English António Guterres, UN Secretary-General:
“Some 155 million children are chronically malnourished and may endure the effects of stunting for their entire lives. And hunger causes half of the in-fants deaths worldwide. This is intolerable.”
21. Med shot, cutaway Queen Letizia of Spain clapping hands
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Gilbert F. Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD):
“Ladies and gentlemen my point is that the challenge for hunger requires more resources and innovative thinking. We all want reverse the trend of ris-ing hunger, but to do so we need to do more in the field and bring our action to a greater scale.”
23. Med shot, cutaway to audience
24. SOUNDBITE (English) David Beasley, Executive Director, World Food Programme (WFP):
“We know today that we seem to be going in the wrong direction with all our wealth and all of our expertise and all of our technology. Shame on us. That any child in the world should die especially with a rate of every five to ten seconds. And you see what's driving this wrong direction? Is man made con-flict based upon nothing but greed, selfishness and corruption.
25. Wide shot, cutaway of Alessandra Pesce going to the speakers' podium
26. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Alessandra Pesce, Under-Secretary of State of the Ministry of Agricultural, Food, Forestry and Tourism Policies of Italy:
“For the celebration the World food day the international community is called to renew all the efforts to reach the Zero hunger goal by 2030. Today's meet-ing happens in a critical moment for the nutrition on the planet: the number of people suffering hunger is increasing, women and children, above all the ones that live in rural areas, are the first to be affected.”
27. Med shot, cutaway to audience
28. Wide shot, plenary hall
Speakers at the global World Food Day ceremony in Rome today called for stronger political will and more financial support to end hunger and malnutrition in all its forms, urging the international community to step up its efforts until everyone has enough and quality food.
This year's theme - "Our actions are our future: a Zero Hunger world by 2030 is possible" - underscores the urgent need to step up collective efforts to reach the Zero Hunger goal. World Food Day is celebrated in over 150 countries around the world.
"The struggle against hunger urgently demands generous financing, the abolition of trade barriers and, above all, greater resilience in the face of climate change, economic crises and warfare," Pope Francis said in a special message read out at the event.
He urged for a Zero Hunger approach that is more proactive and sustained over time, and concrete actions - to step up funds to foster peace and the development of peoples, and prevent weapons and their trade.
The Pope also said that it was regretful that international solidarity appears to be "cooling",and decried the lack of fundamental political will and enthusiasm of responsible political leaders, whom he described "often absorbed purely by electoral concerns or focused on biased, transitory or limited perspectives".
World Food Day is marked as conflict, extreme weather events linked to climate change, economic slowdown and rapidly increasing overweight and obesity levels are reversing progress made in the fight against hunger and malnutrition.
FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva in his address said "we need to put in place food systems that provide healthy and nutritious food that are accessible and affordable for everyone.”
He underlined that Zero Hunger is not only about feeding but also about nourishing people, providing them with the nutrients they need for healthy, productive lives.
He said "we are witnessing the globalization of obesity.”
Silva warned “if we don't find concrete ways to stop this, the number of obese people will soon be as high as the number of undernourished people in the world," urging for improving at the same time the production and consumption of healthy food in a sustainable way.
José Graziano da Silva gave the example of Brazil, Peru and China, lauding them for having reduced hunger significantly in a short period of time - evidence that Zero Hunger is possible if there is political will and financial sup-port.
In a video address, UN Secretary-General António Guterres described the deaths of half of the world's infants due to hunger "intolerable" and called on everyone "to do their part towards sustainable food systems".
FAO Goodwill Ambassador for Nutrition, King Letsie III of Lesotho also spoke at the event.
He said "rural diets are also gradually shifting away from traditional, healthy and organic food to those that are more common in urban areas. A whole of a society's effort is required to overcome this problem in a similar manner as was done to fight other public challenges such as HIV and malaria."
Queen Letizia of Spain, FAO Special Goodwill Ambassadors for Nutrition and one of the keynote speakers. She urged, "Let us ensure that the private sec-tor commits more, that comprehensive education for health is part of the school curriculum. Let's us make sure that consumer step up their role, and really know what they are buying and eating."
President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Gil-bert F. Houngbo said in his remarks, "for African agriculture to reach its potential, it needs investment. Not just in higher productivity and profitability, but in infrastructure, in research, and in policies that result in value chains that are inclusive of smallholders -- and in particular women and youth. We need the political will and budgetary commitments, and more importantly we need to transform challenges into opportunities for rural women and youth."
David Beasley, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP) for his part said, "There's good news. We've made great progress in the world in the past 100 years. But today, we know we're going in the wrong direction. With all our wealth, all our expertise, all our technology - shame on us that any child should go hungry. We will all be held accountable. But I do believe that if we all work together, with the commitment of the men and women around the world, we can achieve Zero Hunger."
Global hunger has risen for the third consecutive year, affecting one in nine or 821 million people.
But other forms of malnutrition have also increased. In 2017, some 150 mil-lion children under the age of five (22 percent) were stunted, one in three women of reproductive age was anaemic, and about 2 billion people were overweight, including 38 million overweight children under the age of five, and 672 million of obese adults.
Whilst hunger is mostly restricted to areas ravaged by conflicts, droughts and extreme poverty, obesity is everywhere and is increasing all around the world. It also comes at a huge socio-economic cost - it is a risk factor for diseases such as stroke, heart disease, diabetes and some types of cancer, and its global economic impact is about $2 trillion per year (2.8 percent of the global GDP).
Obesity and anaemia are on the rise as the current global food systems have made processed and industrialized food - high in fat, sugar, salt and chemical additives - more available and accessible.
FAO is leading with WHO the implementation of the Decade of Action on Nutrition 2016-2025, and supporting countries to address the multiple burdens of malnutrition. This includes adopting legislation to improve the labelling of products, and ban harmful ingredients; introducing nutrition in the school curriculum; combatting food loss and waste; and promoting local fresh food from family farming.
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