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Presenting the 2024 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Chief Economist, Maximo Torero, said, “we are still far off track towards the goal of freeing the world of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition by 2030.” UNIFEED
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STORY: UN / STATE OF FOOD SECURITY AND NUTRITION
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 24 JULY 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

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FILE - NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters

24 JULY 2024, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, press room dais
3. Wide shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Maximo Torero, Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO):
“We are still far off track towards the goal of freeing the world of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition by 2030. And based on the current trajectory that will put us by 2030, with the current conditions, in 582 million people which will still be facing hunger by 2030, and almost half of those will come from Africa.”
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Maximo Torero, Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO):
“What the report also shows is that there are differences within the global number, and these regional differences are really impactful. On one side, we have South America, which have improved substantially. They have reduced in the last two years, 5.4 million people less in hunger. We have Southern Asia, which is also progressing, but we have Africa, which is significantly deteriorating over time. Africa is a region with the largest percentage of population facing hunger more than 20 percent. And the prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity is 58 percent, was nearly double the global the global average.”
6. Wide shot, dais
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Maximo Torero, Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO):
“The report tries to bring a definition that will include the core elements of both the definition of food security and nutrition, so access, availability, stability, etc. And also, the health content, which is central to assure that what we eat also gets the benefits that it should be. But it also adds to the definition, trying to look at funding, to cope with the major drivers that we're observing today. And those are conflict, climate variability, slowdowns and downturns, access to healthy diets and income inequality.”
8. Med shot, journalist
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Maximo Torero, Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO):
“Although the prices of the of the cost of healthy diets have continued to increase over time, it has been compensated in high income countries with the income effect, because the income has grown because of economic growth. But in the poor countries, that is not happening at all, and the cost of healthy diets keeps increasing. And we hope this will smooth over time, but it will depend that the market continues to be stable, and we don't face a shock that will affect the production.”
10. Wide shot, end of presser

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Presenting the 2024 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Chief Economist, Maximo Torero, today (24 Jul) said, “we are still far off track towards the goal of freeing the world of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition by 2030.”

Talking via video teleconference with journalists in New York, Torero said, “based on the current trajectory that will put us by 2030, with the current conditions, in 582 million people which will still be facing hunger by 2030, and almost half of those will come from Africa.”

The report, he said, shows that there are “impactful” regional differences, noting that “on one side, we have South America, which have improved substantially. They have reduced in the last two years, 5.4 million people less in hunger. We have Southern Asia, which is also progressing, but we have Africa, which is significantly deteriorating over time.”

Africa, Torero said, “is a region with the largest percentage of population facing hunger more than 20 percent. And the prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity is 58 percent, was nearly double the global the global average.”

The report, he said, “tries to bring a definition that will include the core elements of both the definition of food security and nutrition, so access, availability, stability, etc. And also, the health content, which is central to assure that what we eat also gets the benefits that it should be. But it also adds to the definition, trying to look at funding, to cope with the major drivers that we're observing today. And those are conflict, climate variability, slowdowns and downturns, access to healthy diets and income inequality.”

The FAO Chief Economist said, “although the prices of the of the cost of healthy diets have continued to increase over time, it has been compensated in high income countries with the income effect, because the income has grown because of economic growth. But in the poor countries, that is not happening at all, and the cost of healthy diets keeps increasing. And we hope this will smooth over time, but it will depend that the market continues to be stable, and we don't face a shock that will affect the production.”

According to the report, despite a broad agreement on the urgent need to increase financing for food security and nutrition, the same cannot be said for a common understanding regarding how this financing should be defined and tracked.

The report provides a long-awaited definition of financing for food security and nutrition and guidance for its implementation. There are recommendations regarding the efficient use of innovative financing tools and reforms to the food security and nutrition financing architecture.

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