I would like to start by congratulating the General Assembly on having adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (resolution 70/1). We have given ourselves an enormous task that begins with the historic commitment of not only reducing, but also eradicating, poverty, hunger and malnutrition…
Every human being has the right to adequate nutrition. That is recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Today, however, there are 870 million people suffering from hunger. Hunger causes the death of children and a…
