The agriculture ministers of the largest industrial nations appealed after their meeting in Florence to fight the global fight even more intensely.
The G20 agricultural meeting in Florence came to an end with an appeal to intensify the fight against hunger in the world and to dare to innovate.
Italy’s Agriculture Minister Stefano Patuanelli urged his colleagues and the international community to stay tuned. “If we decide something today, we may not notice the effects for years,” he said on Saturday.
The focus of the 20 most important industrial nations on the two days in Tuscany was, among other things, the question of how the food supply can be secured more effectively for all people in the world. Patuanelli called it a “great paradox” that on the one hand hundreds of millions of people are malnourished, while elsewhere massive amounts of food are thrown away.
The Italian agricultural association Coldiretti calculated after an evaluation of UN data that around a billion tons of food end up in the garbage every year. That is around 17 percent of all agricultural products.
At the top meeting in Florence, to which State Secretary Beate Kasch had traveled from Germany, the experts gave advice on how to combine the production of more food with climate protection. To this end, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently presented a study according to which around 470 billion US dollars in subsidies in agriculture are not sustainable or fair. Only with a radical redistribution of aid could social inequalities and environmental damage be combated.
Jane Stock is a technology author, who has written for 24 Hours World. She writes about the latest in technology news and trends, and is always on the lookout for new and innovative ways to improve his audience’s experience.
