FAO and ACP Member States Share Strong Focus on Nutrition and Climate Change

FAO and ACP Member States Share Strong Focus on Nutrition and Climate Change

16 APRIL 2015

15 April 2015, Brussels - FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva, in a speech today to the Committee of Ambassadors of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of countries, reiterated the Organization's commitment to addressing food security and nutrition and also stressed the need to tackle as a high priority the impacts of climate change

"Hunger is only one face of malnutrition. At the other extreme we have obesity, which is becoming a concern as big as or even bigger than undernourishment, particularly in the Caribbean and the Pacific," the FAO Director-General said, speaking before the Committee in Brussels.

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Source: EIN NewsDesk

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