UN General Assembly
2014

We do not claim to be an example or a trailblazer, but we do, obviously, want to redesign the kinds of policies that have categorically failed to date and that have not produced the expected results. The critical situation in the world today with respect to food security is a structural problem. It is the result of bad global policies. One of every eight people, many of them children, suffer from chronic malnutrition. Humankind wastes more than a third of all the food we produce, which would be enough to resolve the problem of hunger. It is estimated that 30 to 50 per cent of the food produced every year is never consumed by people, and the situation is worsening due to soil erosion, growing water scarcity, climate change and the improper use of toxic substances in the food production chain. Combating climate change is a top priority. The need to implement policies today and not put them off until tomorrow is the moral imperative of every single individual in this Hall, so that we can give