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The international community is making positive efforts to ease the food shortage.

Recently, a UN Food Systems summit was held in Ethiopia. It made public a report, which said that about 673 million people are faced with chronic food shortage worldwide. According to the report, food instability and starvation crisis have steadily deepened in West Asia and Africa in particular. This means that the efforts of the United Nations to eliminate starvation and poverty by 2030 have faced a serious challenge, the report said.

The meeting also discussed the issue of strengthening international cooperation to cope with major challenges threatening food security including climate change and armed conflicts.

In a video speech the UN secretary general said that many people in the Gaza Strip and Sudan are suffering from severe food shortage due to disputes, adding that to ensure peace is essential for solving the food problem. He called on all countries to work together to attain the sustainable development goals (SDGs) for putting an end to starvation, food shortage and all forms of malnutrition by 2030.

Asserting that despite its enormous potential, Africa is the region with the most serious food problem in the world, the chairman of the African Union said that conflicts, climate change and economic difficulties are serious challenges to the solution of the food problem in Africa. Referring to the fact that 4 million people have been reduced to starvation and more than one million to refugees due to drought and so on, he noted that Africa had already worked out its own strategy to reform the global food system in 2021.

Other high-level meetings and seminars discussed a variety of subjects, such as cooperation in changing the food system through agricultural ecology, the development of agriculture based on science and technology, the establishment of a sustainable food system, and cooperation in the action to ensure healthy nutritious meals.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization will celebrate its 80th anniversary in October this year. In this regard, the organization set “Hand in Hand for Better Foods and a Better Future” as the theme of the world forum on food for this year and its 80th anniversary celebration, and called on all member states to make greater efforts to address the root causes of the food crisis.

Many countries are also working hard to solve the food problem.

Great efforts have been directed to drastically reducing the import of food and realizing self-sufficiency in food. Projects are under way to increase grain production and ensure sustainable food security by developing agricultural science and technology. Other projects are also pushed ahead to turn a large area of land into farmland in order to increase the share the agricultural sector takes in GDP.

The international community is intensifying efforts to overcome the food crisis and develop agricultural production.