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Vilsack Speaks to Global Food Security
Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:42:38 CDTThe U.S. Grains Council and USDA Foreign Agricultural Service sponsored Partners in Agriculture Global Food Security Symposium was held Wednesday in Tokyo. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack delivered the keynote address. The Grains Council organized the event to provide a unique opportunity for government, academic, and civil society leaders from the United States and Japan to come together to discuss the challenge of ensuring food security in the face of a rapidly growing global population and climate change.
Secretary Vilsack told the gathering - we need a comprehensive approach focused on developing sustainable solutions to eliminate food insecurity. Our goals should be to increase the availability of food by helping people and countries produce what they need, to make food accessible to those who need it, and to teach people to use it properly so that they make the most of it.
Vilsack emphasized - food security efforts must be country-led and country-driven and focused at the local and community level. That means engaging farmers in small villages so they can provide their ideas about developing the agriculture sector, so that we can help them with technologies, techniques and crops that fit their culture and lifestyle. It means our focus must reflect an understanding of the role of women in farming, who account for between 60 and 80 percent of food production in most developing countries.
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