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Zero Hunger Global Policy Facility

Supporting governments to design policy and attract investment

Year of publication 2019

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Many governments have strengthened their commitment to achieving food and nutrition security and recognised the need to reconsider productivity and sustainability issues in agriculture. The fact remains, however, that 815 million people continue to suffer from chronic hunger and 736 million people live in extreme poverty. The Zero Hunger Facility builds on the work of the FAO/European Union (EU) Food and Nutrition Security Impact, Resilience, Sustainability and Transformation (FIRST) programme. Through a network of policy officers and technical experts based in national government institutions, FAO helps to create an enabling policy and institutional environment in which public- and private-sector investment can have a direct and tangible effect on achieving SDGs 1 and 2.

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