Rio+20 is an opportunity to change food and agriculture systems so that poor smallholders in developing countries can be included. IFAD will continue working before, during and after Rio+20, to promote the role that sustainable smallholder agriculture plays in increasing global food security and protecting the environment. Join us in shaping the future we want.
Aiming for a food secure future: think global, act local
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, 19 June 2012 - Enhancing food security will take both global vision and local action. Strategy and implementation must be linked in order to obtain the Rio vision of food security. At an event held in Rio de Janeiro in June, The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the Word Food Programme and Bioversity International engaged with stakeholders in a focused dialogue to identify pathways that lead to a food secure future.
The main objectives of the event, held on the sidelines of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development - Rio+20, were to discuss about concrete actions for fighting hunger and malnutrition and strategies to reduce poverty and enhance the resilience and sustainability of production systems.
Participants at the event affirmed that there cannot be sustainable development without bold actions to achieve food and nutrition security, and agriculture and food systems that lift smallholder farmers and vulnerable communities out of poverty and preserve the natural resource base.
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