(VOVWORLD) -Vietnamese Ambassador to Italy Dương Hải Hưng on Wednesday presented Vietnam's proposal to implement a food systems transformation program to ensure food security at the plenary meeting of the 43rd session of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)’s ministerial conference in Rome.
 Ambassador Duong Hai Hung delivers a speech at the meeting (Photo: Duong Hoa/VNA)
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Ambassador Hung, who is also Vietnam’s Representative to FAO, proposed three actions for FAO and its partners:
First, help member countries implement a national program to make the agriculture and food system more adaptable, comprehensive, and sustainable. Vietnam is ready to collaborate with other parties to make agricultural commodity trade a foundation for regional and global food security.
Second, expedite green and digital agricultural transformation, and provide financial support, technology, and capacity-building to developing countries in their transition to more diverse, sustainable, and climate-resilient food systems.
Third, promote coordination and information-sharing in sustainable natural resource and water resource management, including trans-border water resources, marine resources, and South-South cooperation.
 The plenary meeting of the FAO’s ministerial conference on July 5, 2023 (Photo: Duong Hoa/VNA)
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Ambassador Hung highlighted Vietnam's efforts, and said sustainable agriculture and food security are pillars of Vietnam's socio-economic development strategy until 2030, with a priority on developing eco-friendly, high-tech agriculture with low emissions, climate resilience, and improving rural people’s livelihoods.
Vietnam's food system is moving towards a multi-sectoral, multi-target approach that will make it a transparent, responsible, sustainable food supplier; contribute to global food security; adapt to climate change; protect natural resources, ecosystems, and biodiversity; and provide sustainable livelihoods and social security to poor and vulnerable people.