World Food Day: Expo 2020 Dubai hosts event to address world hunger, food security

World Food Day: Expo 2020 Dubai hosts event to address world hunger, food security

Experts gathered atExpo 2020 Dubaion Sunday to discuss food security problems being faced across the world and to determine future solutions during the mega-event’s designated World Food Day.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic’s onset, many countries suffered from hunger, with large amounts of the world’s population being malnourished with no access to healthy food.

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Recent estimates suggest that over 51 million people in the Near East and North Africa region have been grappling with hunger and that agriculture systems in many countries are under tremendous pressure due to loss of biodiversity and climate change, a statement released by the United Arab Emirates’ Ministry of Climate Change and Environment and the Food Agriculture Organization (FAO).

“This World Food Day,we commit to take transformative action to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals through food systems that deliver better nutrition, a better environment and a better life for every person,” said United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his annual video message.

“We are global citizens, and we need to do our part as well as help others. Our national food security strategy will make the UAE a world-leading hub of innovation-driven food security in