Covid-19 crisis has led to food crisis, says Italy’s Draghi | Malay Mail

LONDON, July 27 — The world must ensure access to food supplies as forcefully as it moved to ensure access to vaccines, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said at the opening of the United Nations Food Systems Pre-Summit in Rome.

The UN’s first ever Food Systems Summit will take place in September, with the aim of delivering progress on the body’s 2030 sustainable development goals . “We are off track to achieve the SDGs,” said UN Secretary General António Guterres, who first announced his plan to convene the Food Systems Summit in October 2019, before Covid-19 dramatically slowed progress towards SDGs like zero hunger.

On internationally traded markets, world food prices were up 33.9 per cent year-on-year in June, according to the U.N food agency’s price index, which measures a basket of cereals, oilseeds, dairy products, meat and sugar.

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