Rome – QU Dongyu was immediately re-elected to a second time period as Director-Common of the Meals and Agriculture Group of the United Nations (FAO).
In poll by FAO member nations, Qu acquired a complete of 168 out of 182 votes deposited.
Nominated by China, Qu was the one candidate to FAO’s high place in immediately’s election. His new time period will run from 1 August 2023 to 31 July 2027.
The election happened on the second day of the FAO Convention (1-7 July).
Since being elected FAO Director-Common for the primary time in 2019, Qu has championed a variety of reforms and initiatives to overtake the Group’s enterprise mannequin, enhancing effectivity and implementing greatest practices that assist programme and administrative effectiveness.
FAO’s transparency, visibility and fame has continued to extend during the last 4 years, amid main world challenges such because the COVID-19 pandemic, the struggle in Ukraine and different protracted conflicts, financial downturns, and the intensifying local weather disaster.
Qu has strongly advocated for the transformation of agrifood methods to make them extra environment friendly, extra inclusive, extra resilient and extra sustainable, with the last word aim of serving to Members obtain the Sustainable Improvement Targets (SDGs) and promote the 4 Betters: higher manufacturing, higher vitamin, a greater setting and a greater life, leaving nobody behind.
For that, FAO has targeted on boosting science and innovation and launched some essential strategic initiatives. The Hand-in-Hand Initiative, for instance, helps the implementation of nationally led, bold programmes to speed up agrifood methods transformations. It makes use of superior geospatial modeling and analytics, in addition to a strong partnership constructing to boost incomes, enhance the dietary standing and well-being of poor and weak populations, and strengthen resilience to local weather change.
Within the emergency and humanitarian response, FAO has been advocating for larger funding in medium and long-term resilience constructing, livelihood safety and catastrophe threat discount assist alongside humanitarian actions, particularly in fragile contexts. On this sense, the Group has stepped up its work in prevention and anticipation with the intention to deal with the foundation causes of meals crises.
One other spotlight of Qu’s management was the creation of the World Meals Discussion board (WFF) in 2021. Over the previous two years, the WFF has recognized highly effective concepts, scientific and evidence-based information, improvements, insurance policies and options, whereas forging new partnerships and funding alternatives to remodel our agrifood methods.
The WFF will proceed to develop its attain in 2023, and draw a transparent connection to the theme of local weather motion, whereas the worldwide occasions in October will once more embody three pillars: the International Youth Discussion board, the FAO Hand-in-Hand Discussion board and the FAO Science and Innovation Discussion board.
