APEC members commit to implement Food Security Roadmap Towards 2030

Business & Economy November 18, 2023, 4:55

"We commit to fully implement the Food Security Roadmap Towards 2030 as a pathway to make our agri-food systems more resilient, productive, innovative, and sustainable, while recognizing there is "no-one-size-fits-all" approach to agricultural sustainability," according to APEC leaders’ final declaration

SAN FRANCISCO /California/, November 18. /TASS/. APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) members commit to fully implement the Food Security Roadmap Towards 2030, according to APEC leaders’ final declaration released following the summit in San Francisco (California).

"We commit to fully implement the Food Security Roadmap Towards 2030 as a pathway to make our agri-food systems more resilient, productive, innovative, and sustainable, while recognizing there is "no-one-size-fits-all" approach to agricultural sustainability," the document reads.

"We also reaffirm our commitment to work towards the sustainable resource management of agriculture, forestry and marine resources and fisheries, including combatting illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, and emphasize the relationship between open, undistorted agri-food systems, climate change, and food security and nutrition. We reaffirm the importance of agricultural productivity, international trade, and prevention and reduction of food loss and waste, in achieving food security, and will increase our efforts to ensuring food security and nutrition," the declaration said.

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