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Assured that the food produced in Latin America and the Caribbean will affect millions of people around the world, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) urged the region to continue the efforts made during the pandemic, according to RT.
This was said by FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu in Quito, Ecuador, at the opening of the high-level meeting of the 37th FAO Regional Conference.
Dongyu recalled the key role the region played during the pandemic in preventing the health crisis from turning into a food crisis.
“Their success had a global impact. You must continue this effort,” he said.
He also stated that the food produced and exported by Latin America will affect “the diets of millions of men, women and children inside and outside the region.”
Dongyu recalled that the region has unique wealth that “accounts for 13% of the value of world production of agricultural and fisheries products and owns 34% of the world’s freshwater resources.”
“We are at a critical moment for the world. We face it with a clear roadmap: transforming agri-food systems to make them more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable,” he concluded.
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