Organising APEC Public-Private dialogue to enhance food security
The Ministry of Trade and Industry in collaboration with the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Secretariat held the APEC Public-Private dialogue on facilitating infrastructure investment to enhance food security in Hanoi on April 21.
Speaking at the conference, Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry Nguyen Cam Tu said the event aims to solve difficulties and challenges in facilitating infrastructure investment to enhance food security.
The dialogue is expected to creat cooperative opportunities in the field among domestic and foreign state bodies, organisations and individuals, Tu noted.
Deputy Minister Tu added agriculture and food security have been discussed for selecting as Vietnam’s priorities when the country chairs APEC in 2017 as Vietnam has considered the topic as a significant issue which has an important impact to the mutual prosperity among people in the Asia-Pacific region.
During the event, a representative from the United Nations (UN) said that the world’s population will reach 9.6 billion by 2050, so it will require to raise about 70% of agricultural production in order to meet human demand.
The UN official emphasised an essential task of food security, especially in the context of increasingly complicated and unpredictable conflicts and political instability, diseases and water pollution worldwide. Though cooperation in these fields is more and more becoming a pressing issue for several regional and international organisations and forums.
At the seminar, delegates also discussed several practical initiatives and policies to support and create the right conditions for ensuring regional food security.
They praised the joint efforts between the Ministry of Trade and Industry, members of APEC and relevant agencies in implementing the APEC Food Security Roadmap towards 2020 and their contributions for cooperative activities in food security.
The dialogue is expected to creat cooperative opportunities in the field among domestic and foreign state bodies, organisations and individuals, Tu noted.
Deputy Minister Tu added agriculture and food security have been discussed for selecting as Vietnam’s priorities when the country chairs APEC in 2017 as Vietnam has considered the topic as a significant issue which has an important impact to the mutual prosperity among people in the Asia-Pacific region.
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The UN official emphasised an essential task of food security, especially in the context of increasingly complicated and unpredictable conflicts and political instability, diseases and water pollution worldwide. Though cooperation in these fields is more and more becoming a pressing issue for several regional and international organisations and forums.
At the seminar, delegates also discussed several practical initiatives and policies to support and create the right conditions for ensuring regional food security.
They praised the joint efforts between the Ministry of Trade and Industry, members of APEC and relevant agencies in implementing the APEC Food Security Roadmap towards 2020 and their contributions for cooperative activities in food security.
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