Healthy Ecosystems Key to Better Food Security

UN Agencies Unite to Strengthen Support for Sustainable Ecosystems and to Implement New Sustainable Food Systems Programme. Today the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that is set to ensure better support for the functioning of critical ecosystem services that underlie food security.

The FAO and UNEP bring different and complementary skill sets to the partnership that will make the work on the restoration, and sustainable management of ecosystems for improved food security, more efficient and effective. The new MoU formalizes the cooperation between the two agencies, in the context of a post-2015 development agenda, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly with regard to food security and ecosystems services.

Read more: http://www.unep.org/newscentre/default.aspx?DocumentID=2796&ArticleID=11002&l=en .