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At the 50th session of @UN_CFS and @WFPChief said in video message how #hunger levels are rising globally. They've had to cut food aid rations around the world and choose to feed "the starving" instead of "the hungry".

@UN_CFS @WFPChief If rising cost of fertilisers' is not resolved in the next month or two, food production next year will be affected, warned @MaximoTorero, chief economist of @FAO. #foodsystems #CFS50 #hunger #farming #agriculture

There are a few things governments can do to improve the situation, but there are tradeoffs, say @MaximoTorero at #CFS50

More from @MaximoTorero on what policymakers can do to make healthy diets affordable by reallocating their existing public budgets and also taking into account sustainability. #CFS50

We're now heating from @davidnabarro who is in the steering committee of UN Global Crisis Response Group. He warned that the world's poor are sliding into further poverty with more and more people becoming poorer month by month.

"There are 94 countries that are heavily exposed to the ongoing multiple crisis. 40 of these countries are in distress, because of debt. We're really worried if they're able to maintain their debt service payments in the coming months" - @davidnabarro. #CostOfLivingCrisis #CFS50

This means not only households are facing higher costs, nations are too & they need to support citizens at a time when they themselves are facing higher costs, added @davidnabarro. Sombre speech on behalf of UN Global Crisis Response Group on #Food, #Energy & #Finance. #CFS50

UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food @MichaelFakhri just spoke at #CFS50. Criticised how workers, fisherfolk and farmers, despite their key roles, were treated as expandable & indigenous people's homelands occupied over the past 2.5 years since he took on the role.

He asked @UN_CFS to keep the momentum on urging governments to act and to keep "right to food" at the core of CFS. “The challenge before us is not a lack of solutions," he said, adding he supports previous proposal by @CSM4CFS. See below. #CFS50

https://twitter.com/CSM4CFS/status/1579490855957979137

@UN_CFS @CSM4CFS Day 2 of #CFS50. Big contention around "CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Gender Equality and Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment in the Context of Food Security and
Nutrition" which has been blocked by a group of conservative nations. This Devex piece has more - devex.com/news/exclusive…

As Devex story said, contention is around some of the language in the document, but the opposing countries - Indonesia, China, Russia, Egypt, Morocco, Malaysia, the Holy See, Sudan, and Cameroon - waited until formal negotiations were completed, some said. #CFS50 #gender #women

The @CSM4CFS have released a fairly withering statement criticising the situation and asked @UN_CFS to organise special sessions on this issue. You can find it here - csm4cfs.org/women-and-gend… #FoodSystems #CFS50 #gender #women