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Governments in rich and poor countries alike should renounce their focus on agribusiness and give more support to small-scale, local food production to achieve global food security and tackle climate change, according to UNCTAD, the U.N. trade and development body.
“The structural solution to the problem of world food security is an increase in productivity and production in the low-income food-deficit countries. This would require, in addition to official development assistance, innovative new solutions. To this effect, it is necessary to develop partnership or joint-venture agreements between, on one hand, those countries that have the financial resources and, on the other, those that possess land, water and human resources”, writes Jacques Diouf, director-general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
