The Minister of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries participated in the first world sustainable conference.
Last week there was First FAO World Conference on Sustainable Transformation of Livestock Farming in Rome, where the Minister of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries gave a speech on the importance of livestock and assured that the Uruguay is committed to reducing carbon emissions.
FAO is the agency of the United Nations which aims fight hunger Worldwide. During the conference on the Sustainable Transformation of Livestock – which took place between the 25th and 27th of this month – the livestock ministers of the United States, Cameroon, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Australia, Ireland, Holland, among others, were also present. .
There, the leader of the Uruguayan ministry stressed that the sustainable livestock It should be based on four principles: improving production, the environment, nutrition and health “with more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable systems.” In that sense, he assured that “Uruguay is committed to emissions reduction of productive systems, many of the applicable solutions were shared during this conference, however, technical assistance to producers, especially small producers, is essential for these new technologies can be applied.”
The controversy surrounding livestock farming
Mattos questioned the place in which livestock farming was placed in relation to climate change and accused it of being one of the most polluting industries globally. “He agricultural sector It is the only sector capable of capturing carbon, carbon that accumulated over centuries due to human activity, the real cause of climate change, a fact that exposes the productive sector to extreme events that generate food shortages in different parts. in the world,” explained the minister.
Meanwhile, he highlighted the “fundamental role” played by the meat in the evolution of human beings and their civilization. “The importance of livestock farming cannot be denied from the point of view of nutrition, the health and of social development and economic of vast areas of the world,” the leader remarked. In that sense, he added that “the path that Uruguay must follow is placing livestock and its production systems in the right place, as a fundamental part of food systems, as a provider of proteins for human nutrition.
For his part, he questioned “the policies that generate barriers to trade linked to environmental factors” and assured that “they are one more factor to the protectionism that negatively affects production systems.” With that, he expressed that he believes there should be environmental access awards for those countries that comply with the rules and environmental commitments they assumed.
Source: Ambito
