{"id":1290,"date":"2025-07-28T11:29:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T11:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2025-07-28T11:29:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T11:29:02","slug":"pm-abiy-ahmed-champions-africa-led-food-system-transformation-at-un-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/2025\/07\/28\/pm-abiy-ahmed-champions-africa-led-food-system-transformation-at-un-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Abiy Ahmed Champions Africa-Led Food System Transformation at UN Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>July 21, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed reaffirmed Ethiopia\u2019s strong commitment to transforming food systems across Africa during his keynote speech at the 2nd United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS+4) held in Addis Ababa.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing an audience of global leaders, development partners, and regional stakeholders, he stressed the urgent need to develop sustainable, inclusive, and resilient food systems to fight hunger, malnutrition, and the impacts of climate change.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prime Minister highlighted Ethiopia\u2019s progress in climate-smart agriculture, comprehensive policy reforms, and community-driven initiatives that focus on nutrition and equity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFood systems go beyond agriculture\u2014they are about dignity, sovereignty, and survival,\u201d PM Abiy declared. He called for African-led innovation and investment to ensure long-term food security and praised the summit\u2019s role in fostering collaboration. He urged partners to support locally adapted solutions that address Africa\u2019s unique challenges and opportunities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking place from July 21\u201322, 2017, the summit convened ministers, UN officials, and civil society organizations to review progress since the first summit in 2021 and to accelerate efforts toward achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ethiopia\u2019s role as host highlights its increasing influence in shaping global development conversations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 21, 2017 Today, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed reaffirmed Ethiopia\u2019s strong commitment to transforming food systems across Africa during his keynote speech at the 2nd United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS+4) held in Addis Ababa.&nbsp; Addressing an audience of global leaders, development partners, and regional stakeholders, he stressed the urgent need to develop sustainable, inclusive,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news_en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1292,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}