A cocoa farmer in Cameroon. She is part of the UN Women's Gender Road Project aimed at providing women with market and finance skills to grow their businesses and build upon their communities. The UN summit on food systems aims to tackle hunger and food production on national and local levels worldwide. Photo Credit: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Society ItalyFirst-of-Its-Kind Summit Will Propose Actions Against Hunger and Food Waste
A three-day meeting took place in Rome, Italy, in preparation for the United Nations’ first Food Systems Summit, where sustainable actions to tackle hunger, climate-heating emissions, and food waste will be launched.
Governments, corporations, farmers, indigenous people and more all gathered in the special three-day meeting, to choose among the 2,000 suggestions that were submitted which ones will be endorsed and taken forward at a practical level at the Summit.
The idea behind the U.N.’s initiative is to find ways to give people access to nutritious food, and healthier and safer diets, to use less natural resources, to make sure small farmers earn a decent living, and to strengthen food systems in such a way that they can withstand stress and shock. The Summit will be held in September in New York, United States.
