Trade, Food and Agriculture
The impact of trade on food and agriculture security for the global economy was the topic of the first roundtable discussion on day two of the 2009 World Agricultural Forum World Congress in St. Louis on Tuesday.
Roundtable participants included moderator Gary Blumenthal, CEO of World Perspectives; Joel Velasco of Brazil’s Sugar Cane Industry Association, Cargill’s Devry Boughner, Robert Modarelli with the National Center for APEC; and Tjada McKenna of The Gates Foundation.
I am taking over for John Davis covering this event this week and hope I can do half as good a job. Thanks to John for his excellent coverage, and thanks again to Novus International for sponsoring Agwired coverage of the congress.
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Importance of Food Production « WorldAgForum’s Blog
[...] Brownfield Network also reported on this main topic at the World Congress. In an interview, Leonard Guarraia, Chairman of the Board for the World Agricultural Forum, posed several important questions, such as, “How are we going to (create enough food), can we do it with existing technology, do we need better inputs? What policies are needed for trade? What policies are needed in production and in technology?” Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jim Bolger was able to provide a partial answer to Guarraia’s questions. Bolger stated that a healthy global economy is vital and that plentiful production will depend on both developed and developing nations. [...]
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