UN Rome-based agencies reveal food security and nutrition targets for post-2015 agenda

FAO NEWS, 4 APRIL 2014: The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP) unveiled results of their joint work to develop targets and indicators for a new global development paradigm for sustainable agriculture, food security and nutrition at a high-level meeting in Rome.

This is a critical piece in the three agencies’ contribution to the ongoing intergovernmental discussions on the post-2015 development agenda, the successor framework to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The three agencies identified a list of five targets

• Access to adequate food all year round for all people.
• End malnutrition in all its forms with special attention to stunting.
• Make all food production systems more productive, sustainable, resilient and efficient.
• Secure access for all small food producers, especially women, to adequate inputs, knowledge, productive resources and services.
• More efficient post-production food systems that reduce the global rate of food loss and waste by 50 percent.

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