Chile: Global summit seeks food security for all

there are only seven years left to meet the UN Development Goal of eradicating hunger by 2030. so time is short and the stakes are high for parliamentarians from 80 countries who attended the second parliamentary Summit on fighting hunger and malnutrition in Valparaiso Chile opening the summit Chile's president described hunger as a Calamity that knows no borders even if there was only one person going hungry that would be scandalous but its 850 million people and so this Summit with the support of the FAO is tremendously important do you earn food and agriculture organization says that parliamentarians have a key role in passing budgets enacting laws and holding governments to account so of course parliamentarians in the role of garnering political will have a major role to play now if the governments have the political will and they allocate enough budget instead of dedicating budget for example conflicts to Wars to buy arms if they dedicate a little bit of that to food security we're solving the problem of hunger every continent suffers from hunger and malnutrition but the reasons vary from poverty drought floods lack of infrastructure and technical support for Farmers the Young Generation the product age should go into Agriculture and we should come up with some incentives for the young Farmers every country in Africa 10 percent of his annual budget to be appropriated it has to be it has to go towards agriculture armed conflicts such as the war in Ukraine also impact hunger directly or indirectly but can it be reversed can we say that we achieve I don't know but the point is where we are where we go parliamentary impact practitioners sign Raider commitment towards larger budgets to guarantee food security for greater coordination and cooperation amongst the countries and their parliaments and especially a focus on sustainable Food Systems you see in human Al Jazeera Valparaiso

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Length: 2min 25sec (145 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 17 2023