It Begins With Me - How the World can end hunger in our lifetime - Expo Centre Milan - 6th September 2015 - 7 pm CET
COVENEY CO-HOSTS WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME EVENT
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Simon Coveney TD will travel this weekend to EXPO Milan to co-host an event on Sunday with Italian Minister for Agriculture, Maurizio Martina to promote the work of the World Food Programme (WFP).
Minister Coveney said: “I want to use this public event to highlight the importance of continued support to the WFP and to encourage Governments around the world to take steps towards giving them the reliable funding they require.”
The Ministers, together with Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, the executive director of the World Food Programme Ertharin Cousin, Bono and Amira Gornass, candidate for the Chair of the FAO Committee on Food Security, will participate in a public discussion highlighting the sterling work of the WFP and the UN’s global campaign for zero hunger.
The event will be live streamed on both wfp.org and the official Expo website from 19.00 (CEST) on Sunday.
Date Released: 06 September 2015
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