Food and Agricultural Policies for a Sustainable Future
In the coming decades, the global food and agriculture system will have to provide sustainably for billions more people and meet greater demands on quality, affordability and availability. Farming will be competing with other sectors for land, water and investment, while climate change adds a new unknown to the equation.
Ministers from OECD member countries and key emerging economies met in Paris on 25-26 February 2010 to identify action that best responds to the needs of a rapidly changing world.
 |
Photo: Ministers and OECD officials at the press conference following the meeting. |
| Themes of the meeting |
|||
 |
Providing for demand Population growth, changes in eating habits... how can the food and agriculture system best respond to our needs? |
 |
Preparing for the future Climate change, water shortages... how should agriculture face new challenges and opportunities? |
| Focus on... | |||
 |
A need for reform Farm support policies should be better targeted at issues such as the environment, says an OECD report. More... |
|
A positive outlook Agriculture is more resilient than other sectors to the economic crisis, a joint OECD-FAO report finds. More... |
| Related links | |||
|
|
|||
