Rice in Zero Hunger Challenge

Mr Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the UN, launched the Zero Hunger Challenge at the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development held in Brazil in June 2012. At a high level consultation held in Madrid in April 2013, it was agreed that the global community should commit to a common vision that hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition should be ended by 2025. At these meetings, governments were requested to pay concurrent attention to the following five pillars of the Zero Hunger Challenge:

• 100 per cent access to adequate food all year round;

• zero stunted children less than two years of age;

• all food systems made sustainable;

• 100 per cent increase in smallholder productivity and income; and

• zero loss or waste of food…