IN NO CORNER OF THE PLANET A SINGLE CHILD GOES HUNGRY!

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Guadalupe Valdez, FAO's Zero Hunger Ambassador for Latin America and the Caribbean, said: "We have to consider this as a global fight so that in no corner of the planet a single child goes hungry."
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Waldez stated: "To achieve progress in the fight against hunger and achieve healthier diets, we must strengthen public-private partnerships, continue strengthening laws on school feeding programmes, give more support to family farming and regulate food labeling."


"Frontal" fight against hunger and extreme poverty in Mexico...

For his part, the Mexico’s Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development Víctor Villalobos, described the measures that the Mexican government is carrying out to "fight hunger and extreme poverty head-on" and promote agricultural development.

The plan, which he summarized in five major initiatives, includes programmes to encourage the production of basic crops such as corn, beans or pumpkin; support for coffee and sugarcane production; programs to guarantee incentives and competitive prices for farmers; aid for the use of fertilizers for about 120 000 subsistence producers, as well as programs focused on the development of the southern part of the country.
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Quoting the Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Villalobos said: "In short, it is about ensuring that those who feed us are the first to eat."

Source: FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)

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