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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, December 22, 2024
Proposals to reform the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s constitution and governing processes represent a Chinese effort to expand Beijing’s global influence and undermine U.S. agricultural leadership, a group of Republicans say.
About one in eleven people globally faced hunger last year, demonstrating the world is falling short of its Zero Hunger by 2030 ambitions, according to a recent report by United Nations agencies.
The war in Ukraine has laid bare the fact that agriculture is the key to national security. It’s a lesson that world leaders are taking to heart as they scramble to lessen global reliance on key sources of food and fertilizer, but it’s unclear if it will be too late to stop the slide from food crises to famine in some of the poorest and least developed countries.
