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
Solomon Islands · Day 4Matthew Cooper WaleOur islands are being lost to the sea.
Disasters are more frequent and more devastating.
Food and water security is under threat, and communities are being forced from their ancestral lands.
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Papua New Guinea · Day 4James MarapeA mother buying food can feel the consequences.
A farmer buying fuel can feel the consequences.
A small business facing higher transport costs can feel the consequences.
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Maldives · Day 4Hussain Mohamed LatheefConflict does not have to reach our shores to affect us.
In today's interconnected world, a crisis far away can quickly become a crisis at home.
Interruption to maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz raises fuel prices.
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Niger · Day 4Lamine Zeine Ali MahamanOur economy has seen 7% growth in 2026, in 2025, excuse me, driven above all by oil and agriculture.
Inflation, which reached 9.1% in 2024, has fallen to -4.7%, thanks to exceptional agricultural production and a targeted reduction of fuel and cement prices.
All of the country's riches will be redistributed to benefit our population.
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Egypt · Day 4Moustafa Kamal Madboulyand a fairer system for assessing countries' needs and investment risks, thus enabling the mobilization of private capital without shifting risks onto the most vulnerable countries.
Countries should not be forced to choose between debt servicing and financing education, healthcare, food security, and essential infrastructure.
Development is not charity.
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Guatemala · Day 4Carlos Ramiro Martínez AlvaradoThey are linked through drug trafficking, trafficking in persons, illicit arms trafficking, smuggling, extortion, money laundering, environmental crime and other illicit economies.
They exploit institutional weaknesses, inequality and a lack of opportunities.
Wherever the state is weakened, these structures seek to replace it, intimidate it or bend it to serve private interests.
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Iraq · Day 4Ali Falih Al-ZaidiWe stress here the paramount importance of facilitating humanitarian access and the protection of civilians.
Ladies and gentlemen, the security we seek is not limited to halting conflicts, but rather includes confronting climate change, the effects of desertification and water scarcity.
These are challenges that Iraq faces that affect its food security.
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Tuvalu · Day 4Feleti TeoThis year, Tuvalu soft-launched its first-ever national ocean policy, a comprehensive framework to strengthen our stewardship of marine resources, affirm the permanence of our maritime zones, protect biodiversity, and place the ocean at the center of our resilience and sustainable development.
We thank all of our partners whose invaluable support helped turn this national vision into reality.
For Tuvalu, ocean governance is not simply an environmental policy.
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Saint Lucia · Day 4Philip J. PierreIt is a direct threat to national security, economic stability, food and water security, and human survival.
While the world focuses on headline grabbing events like monster hurricanes, melting glaciers, and tidal waves, climate change is affecting Saint Lucia daily in small but significant ways, such as the unusual bouts of drought in the rainy season, unprecedented floods in the dry season, and stifling of our beaches and coastlines by sargassum.
Our people contribute little to these global emissions, Yet these events constantly set back our people's development and and livelihoods and demand that we find the resources to reverse the damage.
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Liechtenstein · Day 4Sabine MonauniThe climate crisis is real.
We are seeing its effects every day, from heat waves that bake the soil to heavy rains that turned the parched ground into mud.
People are starving in the heat and drowning in the floods.
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Day 4Godwin FridayInternational conflicts far from our shores in Ukraine and the Middle East continue to have devastating consequences for our daily lives, disrupting agricultural trade and global food stability, and driving up fuel prices and shipping premiums.
We therefore join others here and call for an immediate end to the war in Ukraine, with full respect for state sovereignty and territorial integrity under the UN Charter.
And likewise, we call for a permanent ceasefire in the Middle East, the protection of civilians, and the realization of a two-state solution guaranteeing peace and security for Palestine and Israel.
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Tonga · Day 4Lord FakafanuaProtecting and restoring them builds our climate resilience.
It strengthens our food security and enables a sustainable blue economy.
The financing and partnerships we build around ocean and nature-based solutions will help determine our future and sustain our people.
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Saint Kitts and Nevis · Day 4Geoffrey HanleyDistinguished colleagues, when we speak of arbitrary justice, sovereignty and solidarity, Haiti cannot be an afterthought.
Approximately 1.47 million people are internally displaced, while nearly half of the population faces acute food insecurity.
In the very near future, the first round of presidential and legislative elections will take place.
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Bahrain · Day 4Abdullatif bin Rashid Al ZayaniA waterway is not merely a security issue of concern for coastal states.
It is an artery of development through which the food, medicine, and energy of entire nations flow.
When a single waterway is disrupted, the cost is felt by a family in a country that does not have a coastline.
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Kazakhstan · Day 4Mukhtar TileuberdiExcellencies, environmental challenges are among the defining issues of our time.
Climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation, and the growing frequency of natural disaster are placing increasing pressure on our societies and economies.
The Regional Ecological Summit held in Astana in April reaffirmed that climate, water, food, and health challenges cannot be addressed in isolation.
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Norway · Day 4Espen Barth EideAt times, this might require a solid dose of tough love.
President, the cost of war affects us all.
Grain and fertilizer supplies disrupted by Russia's war against Ukraine undermine food security far beyond Europe's shores.
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Sweden · Day 4Maria Malmer StenergardRussia intensified its systematic attacks on civilian infrastructure and on vessels in the Black Sea this summer.
This has once again disrupted global food supply chains, exacerbating an already dire situation for vulnerable people across the globe.
To President Putin and Mr. Lavrov, I say this: the path to peace is clear.
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