Development
Food security at UNGA 81
Raised by 95 of 223 speakers. Read verbatim UN transcript quotes and select a time to hear the speech.
Speeches that raised food security
Kenya · Day 2William Samoei RutoOne-sided violence against civilians reached levels not witnessed since 1994, the year of genocide in Rwanda.
From Europe to the Middle East, from Sahel to the Horn of Africa, civilians are paying the ultimate price.
Cities are destroyed, families are displaced, hunger deepens, supply chains are disrupted, driving up the cost of food, fuel, and essential goods far beyond the battlefield.
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Italy · Day 2Antonio TajaniAttacks on shipping in the Red Sea must cease, as must Russia's reckless attacks in the Black Sea on shipments of Ukrainian grain destined for Africa.
These crises may seem distant, but their effects reach in every household.
They drive up the cost of energy, grain, bread, and fertilizers.
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Burundi · Day 2Évariste NdayishimiyeIt is also a guarantee of progress for the entire multilateral trading system.
With the African Continental Free Trade Area, our continent has already demonstrated its capacity to develop rules and to integrate markets.
It is now up to global trade governance to draw on this.
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Paraguay · Day 2Santiago Peña PalaciosIt is not the great powers or the wealthiest who pay the price.
It is the least protected who pay the price, the most vulnerable among our citizens.
Food and energy security, the food and energy security of millions of people depends on keeping that passage open.
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Dominican Republic · Day 2Luis Rodolfo Abinader CoronaSituations that happen far away from our coasts can directly impact the dinner tables of our families.
The wars in Europe and the Middle East have caused the prices of food and energy to skyrocket.
My country imports all of the fuel that it consumes.
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Poland · Day 2Karol NawrockiWe therefore welcome with satisfaction the strengthening of security in the Arctic region, which is now becoming a reality thanks to the agreement signed yesterday between our Allies.
Ladies and gentlemen, we must, however, make it clear, modern security threats are not limited to classical military actions.
Russia is carrying out actions aimed at undermining the foundations of international stability, striking at global food security through attacks on ports and ships transporting grain, as well as by deliberately provoking crises that affect millions of people outside of Europe.
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Eswatini · Day 2King Mswati IIIAddressing this requires us to draw deeply upon strained national resources to protect our people and preserve their livelihoods.
Directly linked to climate resilience is our commitment to food security.
Our national objective is to ensure that every family has access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food.
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Honduras · Day 2Nasry Juan Asfura ZablahWe are investing our own resources in protecting lives, harvests and access to drinking water.
However, we want to go further.
Honduras is opening its doors to anyone developing new solutions for water, agriculture, early warning, and the infrastructure that our country requires.
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Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) · Day 2Delcy Eloína Rodríguez GómezFive, international stability means that we must resolve our three-pronged energy like dilemma.
We must at the same time guarantee security of supply, affordable prices, and environmental sustainability.
We must champion timelines for decarbonization.
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Romania · Day 2Nicuşor-Daniel DanIn response to Russia's attacks on ports and grain infrastructure, which disrupted global food supply chains, and deepened food insecurity for millions of people, Romania has coordinated with Ukraine on the transit of grain through Romania by rail and by waterway.
In response to the disruption of freedom of navigation in the Black Sea, together with Bulgaria and Turkey, Romania is part of the mine countermeasures task group in the Black Sea.
through mine detection and mine neutralization missions and the protection of critical undersea infrastructure.
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Czechia · Day 2Petr PavelRussia's war has undermined global food security, disrupting agricultural production, exports, and supply chains.
Its effects are felt in my country, but even more acutely in parts of Africa and elsewhere, particularly in countries that depend on stable and affordable food supplies.
While we need to raise costs of war for Russia, we must give serious diplomatic efforts a genuine chance.
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Estonia · Day 2Alar KarisThe consequences of Russia's aggression, however, extend beyond Ukraine and Europe.
For example, by increasingly targeting Ukraine's Black Sea ports, commercial shipping, grain infrastructure, and alternative export routes, Russia is putting global food security at grave risk.
As such, this is a concern for all of us, and rightly so.
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Ukraine · Day 2Volodymyr ZelenskyyThis is about food security.
This is about the lives of many, many people in many countries.
And this is about finally slowing down the rapid development of weapons for killing, a process that has continued throughout this war and has already become a global threat.
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Bulgaria · Day 2Iliana IotovaThis is leading to a food crisis in the world, especially in the Middle East and Africa.
The inability to export grain and fertilizer poses a real risk of famine this winter in a number of countries in these regions and may compromise the harvest of 2027.
Bulgaria cannot and will not remain indifferent.
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Central African Republic · Day 2Faustin Archange TouaderaWe have never had so many reasons to act together, and we have never found it so difficult to do so.
This paradox comes with a price, and this price is primarily being paid by the most vulnerable.
According to the UN itself, more than 147 million people in 19 countries and territories experienced acute food insecurity caused by conflict in 2025.
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Panama · Day 2José Raúl Mulino QuinteroBut I have never been guided by selfishness or speculation in a matter that is so sensitive for the entire world.
The reality is harmful.
Not just as a result of the attacks on innocent people, such as crews of vessels, but also for millions of people who are running out of food or having to pay more for food and fertilizers and workers who are having to pay more for fuel.
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Ethiopia · Day 2Taye Atske-Selassie AmdeA significant leap has also been achieved in attaining food security.
As part of fulfilling our commitment to enhance resilience to climate shock, we were able to produce an improved climate resilient wheat variety seed.
In a very short period, we have transitioned from a wheat importer to one of the largest wheat producer in Africa.
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Slovakia · Day 2Peter PellegriniMr. Chairman, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Every country that enters this hall brings its own concerns.
For some, security means protecting borders.
For others, it means food, water, energy, or the future of their children.
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Mozambique · Day 2Daniel Francisco Chapothat resilience is now an environmental, economic, and food security, social for development issue, and increasingly one of peace and security in all the world.
We therefore reiterate the need to increase funding for adaptation, facilitate access to climate funds, operationalize the loss and damage mechanisms, and invest in early warning systems and resilient infrastructure.
Mozambique remains highly vulnerable to extreme weather events, floods, inundations, cyclones, and we are concerned with the El Nino that might have potential severe impact in the central and southern parts of the country, especially when it comes to drought, food insecurity and livelihood.
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Montenegro · Day 2Jakov MilatovićThe same commitment to international law applies to freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, a route whose security has implications far beyond the region.
Disruptions affect energy markets and global trade.
but they also affect food security through the supply and price of fertilizers and other critical agricultural inputs, with particularly serious consequences for vulnerable import-dependent countries.
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