 unidas e outros organismos internacionales, senhores embajadores de elegados de la COP, señoras e senhores, buenas tardes, bonjour, good afternoon. Constituye un especial honor saludardes con ocasión del Global Landscape Forum número 2 en nombre del director-general de la FAO, el doctor José Graciano da Silva, quien hubiese deseado dirigirse a ustedes pero que debido a la celebración del Consejo de la FAO hasta bien entrada a la noche de ayer en Roma, non le ha sido posible. Es un honor poder compartir esta ceremonia de apertura. Né, el primer día, el agrocultor, el día en montaña. Y me gustaría agradecer a la cooperación excelente entre las organizaciones de esta venda SIFOP, UNEP e FAL y todas las organizaciones relacionadas a estas y particularmente el colectivo Partido Forest que ha co-ordinado con varios procesos que ha empezado por el primer día. No way aid e tru the coven of said programs we've been trying to make sure that this event is carbon neutral. Well, this will be a year that's going to be important this year. The General Assembly of the UN will have to pass the information over on sustainable development. It's very important that the agriculture, forest, mountains, food, rural development and climate change and those involved, which this event is right, should be included in all the SDGs of the future so that they can really potentially themselves and overcome these high constraints in 2015. Also we will be celebrating the international soil year after the Hyogo framework of disaster risk after Beijing plus 20 and let me remind you as the General Commissioner for the UN that this event is an excellent opportunity to disseminate the main challenges and opportunities which enable us to achieve food security for all the planet's citizens in the shortest possible time and in a sustainable manner than the United Nations will be present in MilenExpo in the challenge launched by the General Secretary in the Rio plus 20 event. Finally, the South African, the FAO is going to have the 14th Forest Conference which will be the largest forest event in the world and it will be held in the African continent and you are co-deal invited to both events. Humanity is facing crucial challenges like food security and nutrition, the fight against poverty, climate change and energy and today there are 800 million people who are suffering from chronic malcusion, one billion in extreme poverty particularly in rural areas and many people without energy and water and sanitation education, health and decent home and decent job and all of this has to be provided sustainably so that the people, the planet's life can be maintained including prevention of natural disasters and to do so the forests are to this farcarchy. This forum has a main approach which is a shared vision recognising the considerable in transqual links between agriculture, forests and mountains the territorial approach has been described as landscapes because there is a double meaning for this in English but it means the management of watersheds we have to recognise the denomination of the name of forests for francophone languages overcoming the sector barriers of soil use allows us to get a convis of scale and find synergies to build new partners we could mention as an example of this the forest restoration agro forestry the silver pastoral efforts and fishing and pollinisation initiatives looking to the head we have to take more note of the issue of water in this context in this new paradigm we have to look at the rural population and their legitimate aspirations for human development in the centre of all the attention that is brought together by the deaf barriers sectors but we also have good news we are going in the right direction during the recent conference on nutrition in the head quarters in a few weeks ago the world leaders agreed to establish national policies which would be able to eradicate malnutricion and bad food chains so that there would be good nutrition at affordable rates and also looking at the planet's limits this was a special key for the message of and the purpose also spoken on this as Rio plus 20 insisted we have to remember the three pillars of sustainability and cannot separate them we have to remember the interrelación between food, health and health and while people are beginning to understand the dependence of health and environmental conditions and especially in terms of air and water where the population needs to have the peri-arban forest with climate smart agriculture we have to optimise agriculture as one of the main challenges in the future particularly in the face of climate change in terms of adaptation and mitigation we also have to improve production and income particularly of small holders and the global alliance of agriculture and climate smart agriculture mentioned by the general secretary of the UN last September has to be a support platform for actions in this field the red plus is one of the most immediate challenges as we could provide real benefits we know that countries are making great progress here with the support of numerous partners including the UNDP, the UNEP and the FAR and the forest carbon partnership facility of the World Bank growing number of countries have pledged to restore great extensions in the framework of the UN challenge as the FAR has also said in the forest landscape restoration mechanism it will help the countries to restore their forests we also want to mention in this context the global partnership of the forest facility and the rest of the FAR's instances the rural areas and the activities related activities are also a source of renewable materials of the biological origin like wood, bamboo and fibre which will enable us to have more green economies and low carbon economies thanks to the use of them as in substitution the reduction of use of chemicals and also open up new opportunities to diversify and improve the conditions of life of the rural population favour entrepreneurship and help people to use sub-products by products and produce food to achieve sustainability to reach the changing paradigm we have to address the science and technology and the concepts as well with the objective of achieving some rural areas which are more resilient capable of protecting us from catastrophes effective in use of resources and productive in terms of goods and services while we ensure rural development which is both inclusive and respects the surroundings all stakeholders should be involved the example of the food security committee of the FAR as inspiras here the individual initiatives offer a way forward which is crucial for the rural world urbanization in all the contents mustn't believe in the mirage that the modern world does not depend on rural life modern life's challenges require territories and resources and needs the traditional knowledge of the rural areas much more than before and if we are going to have a good response then we ask this forum in the name of the FAR to do its work as well as possible today and I'm very grateful to you for having come today thank you