China takes the world stage in fighting hunger

With hunger on the rise over the past two years because of conflict and the impact of climate change, the world needs some success stories to keep all of us optimistic and encouraged. China is one of those stories, not just for what it has achieved in the past, but what it is doing now and will do in the future to help the world achieve "Zero Hunger".

I came to China this week as executive director of the World Food Programme to learn about these success stories and form new and stronger partnerships to help us achieve the global goal of Zero Hunger by 2030.

That goal is No 2 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals set out by world leaders and adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. Getting there will be challenging, but China helps show us a path. With only 9 percent of the globe's arable land, China feeds 20 percent of the world's population, so I know there is something being done right here.