The UN International Year of Fruits and Vegetables 2021 finished with a worldwide event in which individuals identified the enhanced understanding of the vital duty of vegetables and fruits to boost farmer earnings, develop respectable work, and acquire food and nourishment safety and security with the improvement of agri-food systems.
“During the Year, stakeholders all over the world embarked on several essential tasks, they highlighted what is required to guarantee they (vegetables and fruits) are created, dispersed as well as eaten in a lasting fashion,” Qu Dongyu, the Director-General of the Food as well as Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) stated in his opening up statements, keeping in mind just how the numerous nationwide and also local occasions– which saw the involvement of federal governments, the economic sector, civil culture as well as the clinical area– aided highlight the health and wellness, safety and security and also dietary advantages of consuming vegetables and fruits.
The International Year of Fruits and also Vegetables 2021 was declared throughout the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly, with FAO as the lead firm. Attending to today’s online closing event, Qu shared certain admiration to the Government of Chile, stood for at the occasion by the Vice Minister of Agriculture, Jose Ignacio Pinochet, “for being the champ of this campaign”.
The FAO Director-General kept in mind that the Year occurred amidst the several difficulties presented by the actions and also results of the COVID-19 pandemic: “I am pleased that, in spite of the hard situations, we have actually prospered in attaining all 4 of the Year’s essential goals,” he stated, describing:
- elevating understanding and also guiding political interest to the nourishment and also health and wellness advantages of consuming vegetables and fruits;
- advertising varied, well balanced and also healthy and balanced diet plans; minimizing loss as well as waste in vegetables and fruit food systems;
- sharing lasting manufacturing finest techniques for small farmers.
Many nationwide as well as local multi-stakeholder occasions were held throughout the year highlighting the health and wellness as well as dietary advantages of taking in vegetables and fruits; occasions that additionally emphasized what is required to guarantee they are generated, dispersed and also eaten in a lasting fashion. This consisted of the International Workshop on Fruits and also Vegetables kept in Chile, which established plan suggestions to raise lasting manufacturing as well as intake.
The FAO Director-General highlighted the joint FAO and also CIRAD (Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique put le Développement) magazine “Fruit and also Vegetables: Opportunities and also difficulties for small lasting farming” as well as its prompt support to choice manufacturers, cultivators as well as worth chain stars. “Production systems can be adjusted to various settings as well as market kinds by making use of our huge variety of vegetables and fruits,” the Director-General stated. Highlighting the significance of advancement, r & d, FAO reinforced its partnership with the International Society of Horticultural Sciences and also its substantial international network of specialists via authorizing a Memorandum of Understanding.
The closing event was enhanced by the energetic involvement of Raquel Arbaje de Abinader, First Lady of the Dominican Republic, Stefano Patuanelli, Minister of Agriculture, Food and also Forestry of Italy, Lawrence Omuhaka, Deputy Cabinet Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock Development, Fisheries and also Cooperatives of Kenya.
A helpful and also stimulating panel conversation included Patricia Araya, Alternative Representative, Permanent Mission of Chileto the United Nations Agencies based in Romeand also chair of the IYFV International Steering Committee; Dilara Koçak, a social networks influencer from Turkey; Sylvia M. Kuria, a young farmer leader took part in Kenya’snatural motion; Tahmina Isayeva, Food Hero and also Entrepreneur, Azerbaijan; Benny M. Corcolon, Vice President, Research as well as Development, Tagum Agricultural Development Company, Inc, Philippines; Ted M. DeJong, Distinguished Professor and also Pomologist Emeritus, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California-Davis, USA.
The FAO Director-General highlighted exactly how vital the vegetables and fruit market is to accomplishing the Sustainable Development Goals. The FAO Strategic Framework 2022-31 looks for to sustain the 2030 Agenda with the makeover to much more reliable, a lot more comprehensive, much more resistant as well as extra lasting agrifood systems for far better manufacturing, much better nourishment, a much better setting, as well as a much better life for all, leaving no person behind.
