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Figure: Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singapore’s Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for Social Policies. ©FAO/Giuseppe Carotenuto.
FAO News 01 July 2023
Rome - Addressing the combined challenges of food insecurity, biodiversity loss and climate change impacts can be a major source of national and global economic growth, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singapore’s Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for Social Policies, told Ministers and Heads of Delegation in the first day of the 43rd Session of the FAO Conference (1-7 July).
Senior Minister Shanmugaratnam delivered this year’s McDougall Memorial Lecture, which takes place every session of the Conference and honors the legacy of Frank Lidgett McDougall, an Australian agricultural expert who was instrumental in creating FAO.
In his presentation, the Senior Minister highlighted that it is essential to address food not just in terms of hunger or the Sustainable Development Goal 2 (No Hunger), but also “as part and parcel of the broader challenge of ecological insecurity.” Nor is it just a burden for the world to share, but a huge opportunity for growth to be approached with optimism and action.
See https://www.fao.org/newsroom/detail/senior-minister-tharman-shanmugaratnam-of-singapore-gives-mcdougall-memorial-lecture-to-start-fao-conference-2023/en
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