Belarus takes part in World Food Forum in Rome

670 million people in the world suffer from hunger. More than 2.5 billion people cannot afford a healthy diet. The problem and its solutions are being discussed at the World Food Forum in Rome.

Belarus provides itself with food. We grow, process, sell, and actively develop the markets of the far arc, including Asia and Africa, where hunger is highest. Domestic experience can be useful. Therefore, our country is among the participants of the forum.

Affordability and quality of food, water, attracting young personnel to agriculture, innovation and investment. FAO headquarters in Rome today is a global platform for dialogue on issues of concern. Leaders of states and authorities, heads of agricultural enterprises, researchers, scientists, farmers and youth from around the world. The main task is to join forces to find solutions to the problems that countries face today. Belarusian products are well known in many countries of the world. That is why the voice and experience of our country are being listened to today.

Inna Tolkacheva, member of the Standing Committee on Legislation and State Building of the Council of the Republic: Our country has been involved in the development and adoption of decisions aimed at combating the international food crisis for more than two decades. Intensify this process allowed the June meeting of Alexander Lukashenko with the General Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization. The next step forward is the Global Partnership Programme on Transboundary Animal Diseases. Belarus is interested in joining it, the corresponding letter signed by the Minister of Agriculture and Food of our country was handed over to the leadership of FAO in Rome today. As for the food forum, despite the political and economic differences between the countries, it is a dialogue platform where at least they try to find common ground. Because food security is not just a problem for poor African countries, it is much more global. And it can only be solved together. Moreover, the main cause of world food shortages is not natural disasters or crop failures, but military conflicts and their consequences.”.