President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday mentioned Türkiye had helped avert a world meals disaster with a grain deal that allowed shipments of Ukrainian grain to worldwide markets.
The landmark deal, brokered by the United Nations and Türkiye in July 2022, supplied a reprieve from the meals disaster by permitting the secure Black Sea export of Ukrainian grain and bringing down world costs.
“With the Black Sea (grain) initiative initiated together with the U.N., we prevented the danger of a global hunger crisis by ensuring that 33 million tons of grain products were shipped to world markets,” Erdoğan mentioned in a video message whereas addressing the World Food Day 2023 occasion.
“We continue our efforts to alleviate the burden of regions at risk of hunger, especially Africa,” he famous.
Russia give up the grain deal in July, complaining that not sufficient was being executed to enhance its personal exports.
Since then, Kyiv has launched what it calls a short lived humanitarian hall to interrupt Russia’s de facto blockade.
Türkiye, which is among the many “most generous” international locations on this planet by way of improvement help, is not going to hesitate to imagine duty for locating an answer to any downside, together with meals and water crises, the president added.
World Food Day is a world day celebrated yearly worldwide on Oct. 16 to commemorate the date of the founding of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 1945. This yr’s theme is “Water is Life, Water is Food. Leave No One Behind.”
“We do not see any difference in nature between protecting water and protecting our homeland. For this purpose, as the government, we have implemented many important projects that will guarantee water and food security of our country in the last 21 years,” Erdoğan mentioned.
The president mentioned that humanity is step by step shifting away from the “Zero Hunger in 2030” method, which is among the many most essential subjects of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals.
According to the FAO, one in each 9 individuals on this planet is battling starvation, the Turkish president mentioned, including, “However, 4 to 5 billion tons of food are produced annually worldwide. While this amount is calculated to be enough for the world population predicted for 2050; unfortunately, it is not enough for today’s world population because 21 tons of the 127 tons of food produced every second around the world is wasted.”
On the opposite hand, he mentioned, wasted meals causes water assets to be consumed quickly.
Erdoğan additionally invited all his colleagues to take the initiative towards the aim of “zero food loss,” which is among the elements of the Zero Waste undertaking initiated by Turkish First Lady Emine Erdoğan and was a world motion beneath the umbrella of the U.N.
“Let’s start from today, Oct. 16, World Food Day, not tomorrow; let’s respect food and end food waste,” Erdoğan confused.
Source: www.dailysabah.com