The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies
Interpretation
A comprehensive approach to tackling hunger and malnutrition requires addressing health needs and empowering women.
This quote emphasizes that merely increasing food supplies is insufficient to eradicate hunger and malnutrition. It asserts that true progress in these areas can only be achieved by also meeting the basic health needs of individuals and ensuring that women have equal roles and opportunities in society, as both health and gender equity are essential components of holistic development and well-being.
In practice
In a speech about global health initiatives.
We are working towards a shared vision of the future for health among all the world's people. A vision future in which we develop new ways of working together at global and national level. A vision which has poor people and poor communities at its centre. And a vision which focuses action on the causes and consequences of the health conditions that create and perpetuate poverty.
More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries
You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.
Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
If globalization is to realise its potential as a force for good, we have to look more closely at the means by which we handle our growing interdependence. We do not have a world government, but we do have an increasingly complex network of institutions that are concerned with global governance. They are central to our future and international human rights law
You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.
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