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Grim statistics are indicative of the magnitude of the global problem: some 820 million people suffer from severe malnutrition. Another two billion suffer from hunger. Some 700 million people live in extreme poverty, on less than US$2.15 a day, while nearly half of the world’s eight billion inhabitants suffer in poverty on less than what the rest spend on a trip to Starbucks each morning. Dr. Rattan Lal.
With conflicts raging, this call must be renewed again, with fresh recognition of the role of agri-food systems as essential for social and political stability, as well as human development, within a framework of sustainability and global co-operation. Agriculture is the cornerstone of this system whose performance is strategic for rural and territorial development and the well-being of both urban and rural populations.
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