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STORY: BAKU / COP29 AGRIFOOD SYSTEMS
TRT: 01:42
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 19 NOVEMBER 2024, BAKU, AZERBAIJAN
1. Med shot, exterior, COP29 entrance
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Viorel Gutu, Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Europe and Central Asia, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“Climate change is a significant driver of food insecurity in a world where around 730 million people still live in hunger. And agrifoood systems are key to achieving food security and hold the solutions to multiple challenges: climate change, biodiversity, land degradation and water scarcity.”
3. Wide shot, exterior, COP29 entrance
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Viorel Gutu, Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Europe and Central Asia, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“Over the past ten years, there has been a significant development of initiatives, coalitions, network alliances and partnerships relevant to the nexus of agrifood systems, climate change and finance.”
5. Close up, exterior, COP29 entrance
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Viorel Gutu, Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Europe and Central Asia, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“Unfortunately, current financing and investment are not sufficient to affect the transformation we need. Over the past two decades, funding to agrifood systems has declined from 37 percent to 23 percent of all climate-related development finance.”
7. Wide shot, exterior, COP29 entrance
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Viorel Gutu, Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Europe and Central Asia, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“It's urgent to ensure that smallholder farmers and producers have the capacity, resources and support to implement agrifood system solutions. We can and we must transform our agrifood systems to fight poverty and hunger, protect our planet, and secure a brighter, more sustainable future for all. And the key word is together. Thank you very much.”
9. Wide shot, exterior, COP29 entrance
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Assistant Director-General Viorel Gutu said that climate change is a significant driver of food insecurity in a world where around 730 million people still live in hunger.
Addressing the official opening of the Food, Agriculture and Water Day at COP29 today (19 Nov) in Baku, Azerbaijan, Gutu said, “Agrifoood systems are key to achieving food security and hold the solutions to multiple challenges: climate change, biodiversity, land degradation and water scarcity.”
He also said, “Over the past ten years, there has been a significant development of initiatives, coalitions, network alliances and partnerships relevant to the nexus of agrifood systems, climate change and finance.”
He noted, “Unfortunately, current financing and investment are not sufficient to affect the transformation we need.”
He added that over the past two decades, funding to agrifood systems has declined from 37 percent to 23 percent of all climate-related development finance.
He concluded, “It's urgent to ensure that smallholder farmers and producers have the capacity, resources and support to implement agrifood system solutions. We can and we must transform our agrifood systems to fight poverty and hunger, protect our planet, and secure a brighter, more sustainable future for all. And the key word is together.”
FAO is leading and co-leading several events on Food, Agriculture and Water Day and is working with the COP29 Presidency and countries to make agrifood systems a central part of their deliberations, decisions and action agenda on Food, Agriculture and Water Day.
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