Opening Statement by Dr. Qu Dongyu, FAO Director-General at the 179th Session of the FAO Council

FAO Director General describes how FAO is responding to the nutrition needs of priority countries through the Global Alliance.

FAO’s Vision and Approach to Nutrition will assist in prioritizing FAO’s work in this area, and in collaboration with global and national initiatives such as the UN Global Action Plan on Child Wasting and the G20 Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty, FAO is responding to the nutrition needs of priority countries.