The meeting, which will be held virtually tomorrow, will be framed by the crisis unleashed by the war in Eastern Europe, which has affected the markets for food raw materials, especially the wheat, the Energy and the trade of fertilizers, key inputs for food production.
Corrêa da Costa Dias has been raising in recent weeks his concern about the sanctions affecting the export of fertilizersof which Russia is a major world supplier, and described the imposition of unilateral sanctions on trade in the item as a “threat to world food security.”
“The world is going through a particularly challenging scenario (…); the destructuring of global value chains generated increases in the prices of food and inputs, especially fertilizers, compromising the economic sustainability of agricultural activity and threatening food security not only in our region but in the entire planet,” the official indicated in the invitation to the meeting.
At the ministerial meeting, with the presence of the highest authorities of FAO and IICA, will also join the former Minister of Agriculture of Rwanda, Agnes Kalibata, special envoy of the secretary general of the UN for that Summit, and currently president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA).
Corrêa da Costa Dias has been raising concerns in recent weeks about the sanctions that affect the export of fertilizers, of which Russia is a major world supplier, and described the imposition of unilateral sanctions on trade in the item as a “threat to security world food”.
For this reason, he said, the objective of the meeting is “to promote a frank and open exchange on the main challenges that are imposed on the agricultural sector of the countries of the Americas in the current post-pandemic economic and geopolitical context.”
Source: Ambito
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