On 25 November 2020, the FAO organized a Special Seminar on Food and Nutrition to call for healthy diets for all. High-level speakers participated, including Her Majesty Queen Mathilde of the Belgians and Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the
The seminar focused on innovative thinking and actions as tools to help transform agrifood systems and make healthy and sustainable diets accessible to all.
Queen Mathilde, also an SDG Advocate, gave a speech in which she talked about women and children. She said that in developing countries, food systems have been especially hard hit. “The closure of schools due to lockdowns has deprived many children from their only healthy meal in a day. […] We need to make healthy food available to all, especially the most vulnerable.” Her Majesty said.
More than 690 million people were chronically undernourished in 2019. Across the planet, the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to tip more than 130 million additional people into chronic hunger by the end of 2020.
Watch the video of the address of H.M. Queen Mathilde below and the recording of the special seminar here.
