 Ladies and gentlemen, colleagues and friends, the World Food Day found its origin in the best day of FAO UN on 16 October 1945. This year is a very special one for FAO and for the global fight against hunger and malnutrition. 75 years ago today, out of the depths of the World War II, millions lost their lives in the conflict. Millions more died of starvation. Farming was devastated. The world needed to rebuild a culture and to meet the most basic of the human needs. Nations come together. FAO UN was established first. And we delivered it. FAO harnessed everything at our disposal there. Expectee, research, statistics, diplomacy to help the world produce more to feed more. In the first 25 years of FAO's existence, farmer output increased by 70%. But the feeding of the world was not just about the more hectares and the more tractors. In the second quarter century of FAO's existence, we worked to make the green revolutionary greener. At the blue year too, we became joined the world attention to safeguarding the oceans and the seas. We promoted aquaculture and we targeted and defeated and changed animal disease. The third quarter century saw a great push for sustainability. We worked to empower small-holder farmers. We promoted a package of solutions for the global food security. We underscored that there was no such sense as an end to hunger without the application of innovation, responsible investment, accessible trade of commodities, and empowering women and youth. Of the 75 years that FAO has been in existence, we have grown, nourished, and sustained the gift of our soil, the livelihoods of our people, the legacy of our planet. Today begins the next quarter-century of FAO's story, a time to look back at our successes, but also a measure of the distance left to travel, and more importantly, to look forward to the new era. Clearly, our work is not done yet. After the diminishing steadily, and the nourishment is increasing again. Too many children are still wasted or stunted. Billions of people cannot afford a health death as civilization moves on. Crucially, the next phase in our history starts amid the ruckus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. It has led by the fragility of our agricultural systems. The precociousness of the agricultural labor force, the thin line that separates many families from destitution. Dear colleagues and friends, now it's time to show our self-worth of the FAO's funders who lost to the equation 75 years ago. We have made a good start with our comprehensive COVID-19 response and recovery program. It focuses on data collection, party reduction programs, trade and food safety standards, and further denies against the next nautical pandemic. But in the longer term, nothing less than a radical transformation of agricultural systems will be needed to bring us closer to the hunger-free world. This, for FAO, presupposes the flat, argyle and modular structure, a relentless push for the digitalization, joining the hands across the government, academia, civil society, and the private sector, and a constant pursuit of innovation and scientific excellence. The world is looking to us to put our actions where our words are, to be think tanker and ex-tanker, rod in do-won. Alongside our partners, we must be knowledge generators and facilitators all at once, together in the quest for the ultimate public good, a world free of poverty, hunger and malnutrition. Tomorrow begins today. So on this wonderful day, allow me to thank and congratulate you, my colleagues and friends. I mean also to spur you on to the even greater efforts until what day comes when we can look back and say, niche accomplished. Thank you.