Monaco stands up for food safety at the 176th FAO Council Session.

In early December, a crucial international summit was held in Rome to take stock of the global food security situation. The 176th session of the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) took place in the Italian capital from the 2nd to the 6th December 2024. The Principality of Monaco attended the event as an Observer sharing many views of the European Union.

In particular, the international summit expressed concern about the global situation of growing malnutrition, with special regard to Africa, as recently reported by The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI). Facing increasing food insecurity, most of the participants stressed the urgent need to accelerate the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), notably the SDG2 aimed at eliminating hunger, achieving a fair supply of food while improving the quality of food and promoting sustainable agriculture, integral part of the international agrifood system, to provide greater stability and avoid the formation of new conflicts

Photo >> The 176th session of the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations - FAO (Rome, from 2nd to 6th December 2024) © Direction de la Communication

The FAO Council unanimously adopted a package of measures for emergency response to face crisis, that is the incoming deterioration in the field of agricultural and food security. To mark the 80th anniversary of the founding of FAO, the Council agreed to organise, in the first quarter of 2025, Informal consultations on the reform of the Organisation, starting from early 2025. Monaco will actively participate in the preparation of the next session and the 44th FAO Conference, planned for the next summer.

The Principality shares the same values of the FAO Council made of forty-nine members acting as the executive body of the International Organisation. ***

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By Maurice Abbati

• Journalist; Editor; Communication, Media and Public Relations Specialist

• Lecturer and Author in English language of Technical Articles and the Manual: "Communicating the Environment to Save the Planet, a Journey into Eco-Communication" by Springer International Publishing.

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