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The statement details decades of joint investment support, including COVID-19-related project restructuring, assessments and recovery efforts. It highlights the scale of global food insecurity and the pandemic’s socioeconomic risks, emphasizing collaboration to sustain food supply chains, protect access to nutritious food, and build resilient food systems aligned with SDGs.","Public Disc losure Authorized  \nDEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE  \nPub lic Disc losure Authorized  \n(Joint Ministerial Committee  \nof the  \nBoards of Governors ofthe Bank and the Fund  \non the  \nTransfer of Real Resources to Developing Countries)  \nONE HUNDRED AND TWO MEETING WASHINGTON, D.C.– OCTOBER 16, 2020  \n(VIRTUAL)  \nDC/S/2020-0046 October 16, 2020  \nStatement by  \nQu Dongyu Director-General  \nFood and Agriculture Organization  \nStatement by  \nQu Dongyu  \nDirector General  \nFood and Agriculture Organization  \n102nd Meeting of the Development Committee  \nOctober 16, 2020  \nWashington, D.C.  \n(VIRTUAL)  \nOver 56 years ago, in April 1964, the President of the World Bank, George D. Woods, and the DirectorGeneral of FAO, Dr. B.R. Sen, signed a Memorandum of Understanding, leading to the creation of the FAO-World Bank Cooperative Programme. Over the last five decades, through this partnership, FAO has assisted the World Bank in the design of 1138 investment projects for a total investment value of USD  \n107.5 billion. New FAO will strengthen the joint investment center approved by FAO Council in July, 2020.  \nThis longstanding partnership has enabled Member States to benefit from FAO expertise and experience and World Bank financing. FAO delivers critical technical support for World Bank investment project formulation and implementation, public expenditure analysis, sector studies, policy reform and capacity development. This backing touches diverse subject matter areas that include agriculture and agribusiness development; digital technologies; animal health; livestock, fisheries and forestry; irrigation and water management; climate change adaptation and mitigation as well as food safety and food systems. FAO’s strong presence in countries challenged by fragility, conflict, and violence has facilitated the implementation of World Bank projects.  \nThis joint World Bank-FAO endeavor continues to thrive today, making it one of the most enduring examples of effective inter-agency collaboration between a Specialized Agency of the United Nations and one of the Bretton Woods Institutions. Each year, roughly 30 to 60 percent of the World Bank financed projects in agriculture, environment, land and water are prepared by member countries with substantial assistance from the FAO-World Bank Cooperative Programme.  \nOur strong, joint response to the COVID-19 crisis over the last nine months underscores the constant relevance and compelling rationale for continued partnership. Since the pandemic’s onset the FAO Investment Centre has assisted in restructuring eight significant World Bank projects, formulating twelve new World Bank projects with a COVID-19 emphasis at a total value of roughly USD 5 billion. In 2020, FAO and the World Bank collaborated in the design and implementation of thirty-one COVID-19 assessments and studies at national and regional levels related to agriculture, fisheries and animal health.  \nOur collaboration with the World Bank builds on FAO’s comprehensive and holistic COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme, that is designed to proactively and sustainably address the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic. In line with the UN approach to “build to transform” and in pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it aims to mitigate the immediate impacts ofthe pandemic while strengthening the long-term resilience of food systems and livelihoods.  \nThe challenge is enormous. In 2019, before the pandemic, close to 750 million – or nearly one in ten people in the world – were exposed to severe levels of food insecurity. Two billion people did not have access to regular food and three billion people did not have access to healthy diets. Today, The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020 estimates that the pandemic may add up to 132 million people to the ranks of undernourished in the world in 2020.  \nBoth the World Bank and FAO estimate that the pandemic's economic impact could push 88 to 115 million people ","cbCaijWQsqbKB3W2","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijWQsqbKB3W2","pdf",175547,5,1,3,"English","en",105,"# Joint World Bank–FAO cooperation\n## Investment support and technical assistance\n## COVID-19 response and recovery\n# Global food insecurity and pandemic impacts\n## Hunger, undernourishment and extreme poverty\n## Disruptions to food systems\n# Policy direction for resilient food systems","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of Qu Dongyu’s statement at the 102nd Development Committee meeting?\",\"answer\":\"To describe FAO’s long-term cooperation with the World Bank and to present joint priorities for investment, technical support, and COVID-19-related actions affecting food systems.\"},{\"question\":\"How has FAO supported World Bank work during the COVID-19 period?\",\"answer\":\"FAO’s Investment Centre supported restructuring of major World Bank projects, formulated new COVID-19-focused projects, and collaborated on national and regional COVID-19 assessments and studies.\"},{\"question\":\"What major challenges to food systems does the statement emphasize?\",\"answer\":\"It highlights widespread food insecurity before the pandemic, the risk of increased undernourishment and extreme poverty, and disruptions to food supply chains, harvests, transport, and livelihoods due to health measures and other compounding threats.\"}]","Statement by Qu Dongyu - 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