IFAD President at UNGA: "The climate crisis hinders efforts to eradicate hunger and poverty"
Alvaro Lario, President of the UN's International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), warns of the dire and irreversible effects that the climate crisis will have on hunger and poverty if we don't act now.
- Alvaro Lario, President of the UN's International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), warns of the dire and irreversible effects that the climate crisis will have on hunger and poverty if we don't act now.
- "The climate crisis hinders our efforts to eradicate hunger and poverty.
- The growing global population is dependent on a diet that places significant pressure on increasingly scarce land and water resources.
- This exacerbates inequalities and social unrest," said the President of the only UN development agency that focuses exclusively on rural areas.