Calling for urgent action to end hunger

‘We have no time to lose, hunger is increasing by the day and food system transformation is part of the solution’, said the Norwegian Minister of International development, Anne Beathe Kristiansen Tvinnereim.

Today, she hosted a lunch meeting as co-chair for the Alliance of Champions for Food Systems Transformation (ACF). The three co-chairs Brazil, Sierra Leone and Norway voiced an urgent call to the international community to move faster to follow up the Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems and Climate Action- endorsed by 159 countries at the UN Climate Conference (COP28) in Dubai last year.

‘We need to work at multiple fronts to accelerate this work‘, said Tvinnereim. ‘We have to increase the volume of climate financing for food systems and we need to ensure more financing need to find its way to climate robust small-scale food producers’.

The Alliance of Champions for Transformation of Food Systems was established to follow up the COP28 Declaration. Several countries took part in the lunch discussion, including Azerbaijan, the host country of COP 29 in November and Brazil, which has put the fight against hunger and poverty on the top of the agenda as G20 presidency.

‘I hope we can continue the important work, started at COP28, in Baku in November and at COP30 in Brazil next year. You can’t transform food systems without climate adaptation. Thus, this discussion has a natural place at the UN climate change conferences now and in the years to come. Putting the words in the declaration into action is a common responsibility, and I appreciated the meaningful conversations we had today’, said Tvinnereim.