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FAO 15 January 2015, Berlin - Providing healthy diets for the world's growing urban population requires forging stronger links between rural producers and urban markets and building food systems that are more socially inclusive, environmentally sound and less wasteful, FAO Deputy Director-General for Natural Resources, Maria Helena Semedo, said today. |
Food security and nutrition needs to be integrated into urban planning and development
Figure: Crops growing on the outskirts of Fayoume in Egypt.
FAO 15 January 2015, Berlin - Providing healthy diets for the world's growing urban population requires forging stronger links between rural producers and urban markets and building food systems that are more socially inclusive, environmentally sound and less wasteful, FAO Deputy Director-General for Natural Resources, Maria Helena Semedo, said today.
She spoke at the opening of an FAO-organized meeting at the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) taking place during this year's International Green Week in Berlin, from 15-24 January 2016.
Semedo warned of the difficulties that many cities face in ensuring regular and stable access to adequate food for all. "This will worsen as an increasing proportion of the hungry will be living in urban areas," she said.
More than 50 percent of the world's population currently lives in urban areas and this is expected to rise to 70 percent by 2050, particularly in developing countries.
Increasing effects of climate change, including storms, floods and other extreme weather events, pose an added threat to how people in cities, especially the poor, access food.
See more : http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/380000/icode/
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