THE FAMILY MEAL – ENDING HUNGER IN OUR LIFETIMES
The UN Secretary General’s Zero Hunger Challenge is part of our commitment to the world’s most vulnerable people to end hunger as fast as possible by achieving five inter-connected objectives:
- Ensure every person has access to food all year round
- Ensure all children get the right nutrition in their first 1,000 days
- Reduce food waste to zero
- Make food systems sustainable
- Increase production rates and incomes of smallholder farmers
WFP and EU leaders support the Zero Hunger Challenge because we know it is possible: although 795 million people are going hungry in the world today, there is enough food to feed everyone.
We believe no person should go to bed hungry, no child’s potential should be limited because of poor nutrition and that every family should have enough food to share a meal together every day.
We can see a future of zero hunger, but it will not be achieved by WFP and EU leaders alone.
The Zero Hunger Challenge needs our sustained and collective commitment.
It also needs a strong commitment of governments in developing countries.
WFP contributes to the Zero Hunger Challenge by trying to ensure that everyone has access to food all year round.
WFP also aims to ensure that children get the right nutrition in their first 1,000 days, thus contributing to the Zero Hunger Challenge.
By focusing on nutrition, we invest in the future of mothers and children.
And finally, WFP contributes to the Zero Hunger Challenge by increasing the production rates and incomes of smallholder farmers.
Hunger can be eliminated in our lifetimes
This requires comprehensive efforts to ensure that every man, woman and child enjoy their Right to Adequate Food; women are empowered; priority is given to family farming; and food systems everywhere are sustainable and resilient.
This requires comprehensive efforts to ensure that every man, woman and child enjoy their Right to Adequate Food; women are empowered; priority is given to family farming; and food systems everywhere are sustainable and resilient.