Deputy PM Trinh Dinh Dung speaks at the first meeting of the National Steering Committee for the ten year (2016-2025) Zero Hunger Action Programme in Hanoi (Photo: toquoc.vn)Hanoi (VNA) - Poverty alleviation andhunger eradication has been a consistent priority for Vietnam and the countryis committed to achieving these goals in cooperation with the internationalcommunity, Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung said in Hanoi on December13.
Dung was speaking at the first meeting of the NationalSteering Committee for the ten year (2016-2025) Zero Hunger Action Programme.
The programme was established by the Prime Minister in 2014in response to the “Zero Hunger Challenge” of the United Nations, a majorinitiative to eradicate hunger worldwide.
Vietnam’s action programme targets ensuring enough food andnutrition for all citizens towards improved physical and intellectual health;and towards fulfilling sustainable development goals (SDGs) of food securityand sustainable agricultural development.
There are five specifics targets under the action programme,including ensuring food and nutrition for people all year around; nomalnutrition among children under two; development of a sustainable foodsystem; most small-scale farmers enjoying increase in productivity and income;and no wastefulness and loss of food.
The programme will create an institutional platform todesign and implement food security and nutrition policies measures in acoordinated manner so as to have a sustained impact on national food security,poverty reduction and development of new rural areas (under criteria set by theGovernment).
Funds for the programme will be mobilised from internationaldonors as well as allocations made to target programmes earmarked by theGovernment.
Dung said Vietnam has participated resolutely andeffectively in the “Zero Hunger Challenge” and has gained manyachievements in human development, particularly poverty reduction.
He urged relevant ministries and agencies to proactively andresolutely implement tasks to help improve the efficiency and efficacy of theaction programme.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment, the nation’s poverty rate reduced from 46.9 percent in 1990-1992to 9 percent in 2010-2012 period. The national plan aims at “basically tacklingpoverty” by 2020.-VNA
Dung was speaking at the first meeting of the NationalSteering Committee for the ten year (2016-2025) Zero Hunger Action Programme.
The programme was established by the Prime Minister in 2014in response to the “Zero Hunger Challenge” of the United Nations, a majorinitiative to eradicate hunger worldwide.
Vietnam’s action programme targets ensuring enough food andnutrition for all citizens towards improved physical and intellectual health;and towards fulfilling sustainable development goals (SDGs) of food securityand sustainable agricultural development.
There are five specifics targets under the action programme,including ensuring food and nutrition for people all year around; nomalnutrition among children under two; development of a sustainable foodsystem; most small-scale farmers enjoying increase in productivity and income;and no wastefulness and loss of food.
The programme will create an institutional platform todesign and implement food security and nutrition policies measures in acoordinated manner so as to have a sustained impact on national food security,poverty reduction and development of new rural areas (under criteria set by theGovernment).
Funds for the programme will be mobilised from internationaldonors as well as allocations made to target programmes earmarked by theGovernment.
Dung said Vietnam has participated resolutely andeffectively in the “Zero Hunger Challenge” and has gained manyachievements in human development, particularly poverty reduction.
He urged relevant ministries and agencies to proactively andresolutely implement tasks to help improve the efficiency and efficacy of theaction programme.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment, the nation’s poverty rate reduced from 46.9 percent in 1990-1992to 9 percent in 2010-2012 period. The national plan aims at “basically tacklingpoverty” by 2020.-VNA
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