Speaking ahead of the publication of the 2021 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report, Agnes Kalibata, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Secretary-General¡¯s Special Envoy for the 2021 Food Systems Summit, said:
¡°It is an indictment on our entire food systems ¨C from production to distribution and disposal ¨C that in 2020, as many as 811 million men, women and children went without enough to eat, according to the latest SOFI report.
¡°The pandemic is only partly to blame. Hunger on this scale is not a symptom of Covid-19, it is a symptom of a dysfunctional food system that buckles under pressure and abandons the most vulnerable first.
¡°The millions facing hunger today need immediate aid and assistance. But the generations to come need systemic change, and this is the aim of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Food Systems Summit, to transform food systems so they not only feed the world, but nourish it to its full potential.
¡°My hope is that this challenge will be at the centre of Member State pathways to action as they step forward to announce food systems ambitions at the Pre-Summit and Summit ahead of the decade of Action.¡±
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