Italian and Rwandan leaders join urgent call to transform world's food systems as UN Food Systems Pre-Summit gets under way
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Tuesday, July 27, 2021
ROME, July 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Rwandan President Paul Kagame led calls for countries to make bold commitments to transforming their food systems during opening day remarks at the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit.
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- ROME, July 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Rwandan President Paul Kagame led calls for countries to make bold commitments to transforming their food systems during opening day remarks at the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit.
- UN Secretary-General Antnio Guterres added: "The pandemic, which still assails us, has highlighted the links between inequality, poverty, food, disease and our planet."
- "Food unites us all, as families, as communities, as cultures and as humanity," said UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed.
- "Now let's use it to unite around the urgency and the actions that are needed to transform our world by 2030."