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IANS | 23 Jan, 2021
Qu Dongyu, Director-General of the Rome-based UN Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO), said the coronavirus pandemic has illustrated the
need for the world to strengthen agriculture and food systems.
Qu,
a former vice-minister of China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Affairs who has led FAO since 2019, said the Organization was prepared
to support the global effort to develop what he called a "new path" for
improving the sustainability of agriculture and food systems, reports
Xinhua news agency.
He mentioned an array of FAO-sponsored
programs that could bolster the process, including the agency's Covid-19
Response and Recovery Program, a partnership project, and its
Hand-in-Hand Initiative, which aims to accelerate agricultural
transformation and sustainable rural development.
Qu's remarks
were part of a broader Conference of Agricultural Ministers, which took
place in Berlin, with many participants taking part through video link.
The event included ministers from around the world, as well as the heads of various multilateral organizations.
"The
pandemic has given impetus to innovation and we should work together to
keep up this momentum," Qu told participants in the summit.
In a
statement, FAO said Qu's remarks fit in with remarks from UN
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who called on the participants to
take "bold action" to improve global agriculture and food systems.
In
addition to Qu and Guterres, participants included David Beasley,
executive director of the World Food Program, also based in Rome,
Patricia Espinosa, the former minister of foreign affairs in Mexico who
now heads the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and
German Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture Julia Klockner.
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