Speaker: Director-General QU Dongyu
Date: 16/10/2025
words: 432
Glossary
1. FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) 유엔 식량 농업기구
2. World Food Day 세계 식량의 날
3. His Holliness Pope Leo XIV 교황 레오 14세 성하
4. FAO Constitution FAO 헌장
세줄 요약:
FAO 설립 80주년과 세계 식량의 날을 맞아 로마 본부에서 교황과 세계 지도자들을 맞이하며 행사를 개최함.
식량권은 기본적인 인권이며, 기아 퇴치를 위해서는 인간의 존엄성 존중과 평화가 필수적임을 강조함
'Four Betters'를 통해 누구도 소외되지 않고 결핍으로부터 자유로운 세상을 만들겠다는 사명을 재확인함.
Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Good morning from Rome!
It is a great honour and a privilege to welcome you to FAO headquarters today in the heart of Rome, the eternal city, as we celebrate World Food Day and FAO’s 80th Birthday.
I am deeply honoured to welcome the esteemed world leaders who have joined us today in person here at FAO headquarters in Rome.
Your presence here today is a true reflection that hunger knows no borders, and that the challenge of food security demands unity among nations and among people.
The world’s leaders and people everywhere must come together united by our collective belief that the right to food is a basic human right, and that peace is a prerequisite for food security.
I am particularly humbled to welcome His Holiness Pope Leo XIV to FAO headquarters, for the first time under the UN family.
Your Holiness, your presence on this World Food Day, and on our 80th birthday, reminds us that the fight against hunger is not only about food - it is about dignity and our shared humanity.
Your guidance encourages us to put people - to put humankind - at the center of everything we do.
We heed your call for a more just society, where the poor and the most vulnerable are not discarded or ignored, but are the focus of our combined efforts.
Your call inspires us to be better together, strengthened by our collective compassion.
This conviction further strengthens our dedication to pursue FAO’s noble mandate for a world free from hunger and malnutrition and “free from want” – as laid down by our founding members in the FAO Constitution.
At FAO, for over eight decades, we have recognized that food security cannot be achieved without prioritizing human dignity.
We have worked tirelessly knowing that only by ensuring sufficient and nutritious food for the hungry and the malnourished can we overcome global inequalities and poverty.
Food does not only feed the body, it feeds the soul, it restores dignity, it ensures a better life and a better future for all.
This is FAO’s foundational aspiration of the Four Betters for a holistic and integrated vision that leaves no one behind.
Better Production – to make certain that farmers are equipped to produce more with less.
Better Nutrition – to ensure access for all families to safe, healthy, nutritious and affordable foods.
A Better Environment – to safeguard our land, water and ecosystems for future generations to come.
And a Better Life – to make sure that all people, especially the most vulnerable, can live in stability, with dignity and opportunity.