مقاطع إذاعية
World Food Day at FAO Headquarters
The following is an excerpt from the Address by Horst Köhler, President of the Federal Republic of Germany (in German)- Photo ©FAO/Alessandra Benedetti Translation: "The paramount goal in the fight against hunger must be to ensure that people have an adequate supply of food from their own fields and the surrounding region. This requires a type of agriculture that is based on 'ownership? in the developing countries and on func tioning local structures and local know-how...Unfortunately agri.cultural development in Southern countries has in the past taken many wrong turns. Europe, too, played its role in introducing monocultures of export crops
...Monocultures to produce biofuels are an inadequate response to the problem of climate change, especially if, for example, they exacerbate water problems in developing regions or cause prices for staples such as maize and wheat to rise dramatically...Bioenergy cannot be promoted at the expense of food security. But FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf has made a very interesting suggestion bioenergy could be put to use to fight poverty directly. Instead of being used to propel cars, bioenergy could also be used in developing countries as a local energy source in rural areas..."
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L. Kambirigi
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