The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the Kingdom of Spain, acknowledged their joint efforts to fight global hunger and malnutrition in the past decade, and pledged to further strengthen their collaboration in the future.
The director-general of FAO, QU Dongyu, was joined by Spain’s Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas Puchades, and Spain’s Secretary of State for International Cooperation, Ángeles Moreno Bau, at a virtual event to release the first edition of their Partnership Report entitled FAO plus Spain: Working for global food security and nutrition to mark their long-standing co-operation.
QU Dongyu said, “The strategic alignment between our priorities is steadfast and so is the foundation of our long standing partnership. It reflects our shared goals and historic commitment to eradicate global hunger and malnutrition.”
Minister Planas Puchades congratulated FAO for ‘the tremendous role’ it is playing and stressed that Government of Spain and FAO were working together to find global solutions to combat malnutrition and hunger so that no one was left behind.
The Partnership Report captures the nature and scope of the cooperation between FAO and Spain over the past ten years and highlights areas where results were achieved at a global, regional and country level, thanks to Spain’s continued support for FAO from 2010 to 2020.
Secretary of State Moreno Bau cited various initiatives supported by Spain in Africa, Asia, and Central America to underline Spain’s commitment and shared objectives with FAO to eradicate hunger and achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Spain’s objectives have long been closely aligned with FAO’s strategic framework and regional priorities. In recent years, Spain’s assistance has focused on Latin America and the Caribbean, the Near East and North Africa as well as Sub-Saharan Africa.
However, joint efforts to enhance food security, protect the livelihoods of farming families and improve the resilience of rural communities and support activities aligned with achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have become even more challenging due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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