 Ladies and gentlemen, colleagues and friends, the World Food Day found its origin in the best day of FAO U.N. on 16 October 1945. This year is a very special one for FAO and for the global fight against hunger and malnutrition. Seventy-five 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 agriculture and to meet the most basic of the human needs. Nations come together. FAO U.N. was established first. And we delivered it. FAO harnessed everything at our disposal there. Expedited research, statistical diplomacy to help the world produce more to feed more. In the first twenty-five years of FAO's existence, farmer output increased by seventy percent. But feeding the world was not just about more hectares and more tractors. In the second quarter century of FAO's existence, we worked to make the green revolutionary greener. At the Bloor II, 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 application of innovation, responsible investment, accessible trade of commodities, and empowering women and youth. Of the seventy-five 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 and measure the distance left to travel. And more importantly, to look forward to the new era. Clearly, our work is not done yet. After diminishing steadily, and the nourishment is increasing again. Too many children are still wasted or stunted. Billions of people cannot afford a health debt, as civilization moves on. Crucially, the next phase in our history starts amid the wreckage 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 ourselves the ways of the FAO's funders who lost to the occasion seventy-five 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 zoonotic pandemics. 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, agile 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 when our words are to be think tanker and ex-tanker right into one. Alongside our partners, we must be knowledge generators and facilities 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 World Food Day, allow me to thank and congratulate you, my colleagues and friends, allow me also to spur you on to the even greater efforts until World Food Day comes when we can look back and say Mish Accomplished. Thank you.