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Its not that simple, unfortunately. The world has about 1.5 billion
hectares of farmland, and thats about the limit. Each additional acre of
land that is ploughed for cultivation means more carbon dioxide
emissions, which ultimately heat the atmosphere. Why is this? The
increased oxygen in the soil activates the microorganisms, which then
break down organic substances and cause emissions. What we need is to
intensify the way we work the land already under cultivation in a manner
that is sustainable.
The wariness toward genetically modified plants is
considerable.
Yes, but it is unfounded, from both a scientific and engineering
standpoint. The EU has invested 300 million euros in 500 projects to
investigate the risks of green genetic engineering. Results have showed
that the risks affiliated with green genetic engineering are no more and
no less than those of conventional breeding. As long as the public is
barraged by yellow press headlines that read Genetically Engineered
Potatoes Cause Brain to Shrink, results like these fall on deaf ears.
Germany has committed nearly six million dollars for food and
nutrition security, sustainable livelihoods and climate-smart agriculture in
agreements signed with FAO, the agency announced today.FAO has been
promoting improved complementary feeding in a number of countries in
Asia and Africa, teaching families how to enrich young childrens diets
using locally available, nutrient-dense foods.Just over two million dollars
will be used to finance a three-year project to evaluate and document the
effectiveness of existing complementary feeding practices in order to
inform nutrition policy and programme design in developing countries.
Two other projects are aimed at improving nutrition and nutrition
education. Promoting sisal The Government of Germany provided
funding for the first phase of a 52-month project to promote the
commercial and environmental potential of sisal production among
farmers and vulnerable communities in several of the worlds poorest
countries.Sisal is a renewable resource that thrives on marginal land in
hot and arid climates. Fibre residues can be used to generate bioenergy
and produce animal feed, fertiliser and ecological housing material. Sisal
is also entirely biodegradable at the end of its life cycle. German funding
will also support policy development and capacity building on the linkages
between bioenergy and food security, as well as a three-year project to
improve climate change mitigation within the agricultural sector. Another
project will contribute to FAOs post-earthquake agriculture emergency
and rehabilitation programme in Haiti, with a view to strengthening
coordination.
The all-round development of rural areas becomes a locomotive of
growth in the generally agrarian economies of developing countries. The
focus is on small farming and fisheries. Small farmers and their families
receive support to help them make the transition from purely subsistence
farming to producing a marketable surplus. Productivity gains and income
generation in agriculture make it possible to create jobs outside
agriculture. This is the most effective way of overcoming poverty and
hunger, both of which are widespread in rural areas. Private investment in
agriculture should be stepped up and geared to development goals. In a
growing number of rural regions in the world, creating employment
alternatives to the cultivation of drug crops is in the interests of security.
German activities focus on developing local, national and regional
markets for food and animal fodder. Any disruption of these markets, say
in the form of export subsidies on the part of industrialised countries,
should be avoided. German development policy also aims to integrate
developing countries into the global economy in such a way as to promote
development, provided this does not jeopardise local food security. Support is given to ensuring sovereign access to natural resources (including
fishing grounds, soil fertility, biodiversity).
The BMZ has set out to achieve these strategic objectives in two
ways. It is working within the multilateral forums of the Global Partnership for Food Security that have been set up since 2009 to have its three
strategic objectives generally adopted
secondly, it consistently gears its own bilateral cooperation in the
field of rural development and food security to these objectives. It will
process its positive experience and achievements to date
and contribute them to the Global Partnership in the form of good
practices.
international agricultural research, which is enormously important
for long-term food security, to increase its commitment to realising the
above three strategic objectives.
"We are grateful to the Government of Germany for its continued
support to WFP. This contribution not only strengthens WFP's important
partnership with Germany in protecting Sudan's most vulnerable people,
but also allows us to carry out activities that will promote long-term food
security, said WFP Sudan Country Director Adnan Khan.
end hunger, achieve food security, and improved nutrition and
sustainable farming
ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Small farmers and their families receive support to help them make
the transition from purely subsistence farming to producing a marketable
surplus. Productivity gains and income generation in agriculture make it
possible to create jobs outside agriculture.
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Germany: food scarcity is definitely a priority area of Germany
development policy, via international platform providing funds for the
developing nations
worldwide increase in food production and a strengthening of
income in countries affected by povertywater resources and agricultural
France: France is strongly committed in support of food security,
both within the framework of bilateral cooperation and at a multilateral
level
Argentina: