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Tackling Global Challenges of Hunger, Malnutrition and Climate Change by Transforming Agrifood Systems - GCP/GLO/1091/ITA

Year of publication 2025

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Synopsis (short abstract) The world is falling short of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set out in the 2030 Agenda, particularly the goal of achieving Zero Hunger (SDG2). Transforming agrifood systems to become more efficient, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable is vital to ending hunger and malnutrition, eliminating poverty, conserving and restoring ecosystems, as well as to mitigating and adapting to climate change. The Italian Group of Twenty (G20) Presidency in 2021 placed food security and nutrition as high priorities on the political agenda, as confirmed by the Call to Action to the entire international community for improving global food security and resilient agrifood systems. These efforts were further strengthened by the Group of Seven (G7) Italian Presidency in 2024. Advancing the implementation of the commitments of the G20, G7 and other global fora can contribute to tackling the above-mentioned challenges. This project supported the renewed Italy-FAO partnership, with the objective of realizing the ambitions of the G20 under the Italian Presidency and other global fora, which set key strategic directions in 2021 to tackle the urgent global challenges of hunger, malnutrition and climate change by transforming agrifood systems into more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable frameworks.

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