How to transform agrifood systems and act as global agent of change the key focus FAO Director-General QU Dongyu called for an innovative, action-oriented and results-targeted approach. ©FAO/Sujeewa de Silva 20/02/2024, Colombo, Sri Lanka – How to harness the potential of a dynamic region in transforming the ways in which our food is produced and distributed globally, while also tackling its own all-too persistent problems of hunger and poverty – these are the crucial challenges that ministers from across Asia and the Pacific will be discussing in a four-day meeting here this week, organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of…
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