Dry lettuce field (archive), via dts news agency
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Berlin (dts news agency) – At the 16th Berlin Conference of Agriculture Ministers, the agriculture ministers from 65 countries committed themselves to fighting global hunger and making food systems more sustainable and resilient against the background of climate change. “One in ten people goes to bed hungry,” said Federal Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir (Greens) on Saturday. “In view of this, we as a global community should actually move closer together, but instead the world is threatening to break apart into camps.”
Agricultural policy always means agricultural diplomacy; food security can only be achieved together. “We will not implement the right to food if we only focus on increasing production but ignore the climate crisis and species extinction – both of which already threaten the foundations of our agriculture,” said the Green politician. “In some places the grain is withering at the stalk, while elsewhere floods and storms destroy entire harvests. The climate crisis is the greatest threat that agriculture knows.”
The final communiqué of the 16th Berlin Conference of Agriculture Ministers includes, among other things, the following commitments: Implementing the human right to food, a sustainable and resilient transformation of food systems, strengthening climate protection and biodiversity and focusing on combating food waste.
In addition to the agriculture ministers, high-ranking representatives from eleven international organizations also discussed how the right to adequate food can be implemented at the Berlin Agriculture Ministers Conference.
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