The Government of Nepal, in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), has today launched a National Action Plan to eradicate hunger from the country by 2025. The National Action Plan on the Zero Hunger Initiative in Nepal (2016 – 2025) was launched jointly by Nepalese Prime Minister KP Oli and FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva in Kathmandu. The National Action Plan was prepared by the Ministry of Agricultural Development in collaboration with the United Nations and with the technical support of FAO. Nepal’s initiative to eradicate hunger in the country is in line with the Zero Hunger Challenge declared by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in 2012.During his remarks, Prime Minister Oli said Nepal was one of a very few countries with "food sovereignty and right to food enshrined in its Constitution”. Adopting the Zero Hunger Challenge and implementing this National Action Plan to meet such a challenge in the country is both pertinent and timely.Prime Minister Oli said that poverty and hunger are humiliating factors for all humanity in the 21st century. “I would like to make a serious commitment that malnutrition will be eliminated within ten years,” the Prime Minsiter said, further adding that as head of the Government of Nepal he is fully committed to provide support for ending hunger in the country by 2025.
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HUNGER, FOOD, AGRICULTURE, POVERTY, POVERTY MITIGATION, MALNUTRITION, NUTRITION, CONSTITUTIONS, FOOD RIGHT, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, CIVIL SOCIETY, FOOD SECURITY, NARCOTIC DRUGS, REFUGEES, EARTHQUAKES, EARTHQUAKE ZONES, CRISIS, EMERGENCY SHELTERS, RECONSTRUCTION, CHILDREN, SCHOOLS, EDUCATION, PRIMARY EDUCATION,CULTURAL HERITAGE, YOUTH, GENDER DISCRIMINATION, EARLY MARRIAGE, YOUTH PARTICIPATION, SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED PERSONS, WOMEN, VIOLENCE, PSYCHOSOCIAL COUNSELLING, DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
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UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION CENTRE
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10.01.00
- Food And Nutrition
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