Disrupt Agri Sector To Attain Zero Hunger – Graca Machel

The world is nowhere near to achieving a global goal to end hunger and malnutrition by 2030 because of a lack of accountability by key decision-makers, Nelson Mandela’s widow warned this past weekend.

In an impassioned speech, Graca Machel told ministers, ambassadors and representatives from 194 nations at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome the failure was at all levels.

“We are not doing enough on the pace and level of investment and we’re not going to get there,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation after her lecture.

“That’s my assessment, and they have to prove me wrong,” added Machel, whose namesake trust promotes women’s and children’s rights in Africa.

Member nations of the UN unanimously adopted 17 global goals in 2015 committing over 15 years to tackle a list of world’s most pressing issues, ranging from