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On 22 March 2021, UN Assistant Secretary-General and SUN Movement Coordinator, Gerda Verburg, received a letter from the Government of the Republic of Ecuador, signed by the Vice President of the Republic, Her Excellency María Alejandra Muñoz, expressing the interest of the country in joining the SUN Movement.
The Government of the Republic of Ecuador is joining the SUN Movement with a great vision: a country where girls and boys have the health and nutrition necessary for their optimal social and economic growth. In December 2020, the Government of the Republic strengthened the implementation of the National Strategy for national growth without malnutrition, “
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The head of the food systems summit, due to take place in September, has made an emotional appeal for unity and the UN’s own advisers are urging a rethink of the way it is run.
Called by the UN secretary general, António Guterres, the summit was welcomed for recognising that farming has been mostly ignored in climate talks. Its brief was to examine ways to reduce hunger and improve global food systems as the climate crisis intensifies and biodiversity is threatened.
The UN estimates that more than 820 million people are undernourished, a jump of 60 million in five years. Nearly a quarter of all children under five are stunted and 1.9 billion adults are overweight, according to the World Health Organization.
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NAIROBI, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) Robust investment in food security and nutrition programs tailor-made for vulnerable demographics including children, women and the elderly is key to hastening Africa s recovery from COVID-19 related shocks, experts said.
The experts and policymakers who spoke at a virtual roundtable in Nairobi on Thursday evening said that robust action on Africa s malnutrition crisis worsened by the pandemic was a prerequisite in order to secure a sustainable future for communities. We need adequate financing and political goodwill in order to tackle malnutrition and childhood stunting that worsened during the pandemic amid restricted supply of food due to lockdowns, said Gladys Mugambi, Head of Nutrition Program in Kenya s Ministry of Health.