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Solving food security in an era of meagre resources
News, Jose Graziano DaSilva, Published on 05/04/2018
» All UN member countries have committed themselves to eradicate hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. This was a bold and ambitious move but it seemed achievable after decades of declines in the number of hungry people worldwide. Here in the Asia-Pacific region we saw some of the most impressive declines until just recently. Yet, today, there are still nearly a half-billion undernourished people in this region -- some 490 million -- far more than any other part of the world.
The time has come to cash in overdue peace dividends
News, Jose Graziano DaSilva, Published on 19/09/2017
» A couple of decades ago the wall that was on everybody's mind was in Berlin. Then it came crashing down, pushed over by a wave of reform and renewal that seemed to promise the dawn of a new era for our troubled globe.