The Ministers of Agriculture of the G20 countries, which is currently chaired by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, called for avoiding the current unjustified measures to ensure the global food supply chain, while opening the door wide for the private sector to play a critical role in mobilizing rapid and innovative responses to eliminate the effects of the epidemic on the agricultural and food sectors.
After the end of the extraordinary meeting that was held virtually, the Ministers of Agriculture of the G20 announced commitment to close cooperation and take concrete measures to protect food security and nutrition at the global level, calling for the importance of work to ensure a continuous flow across borders of food, products and inputs necessary for agricultural and food production, in line with the leaders’ statement in March about the epidemic.
The Ministers acknowledged the challenges facing them to reduce the risk of the pandemic, stressing the need to maintain food supply chains, and to work to ensure the health, safety and welfare of workers in agriculture, and throughout the food supply chain.
The G20 agriculture ministers also stressed that they are currently working to avoid any unjustified restrictive measures that could lead to excessive fluctuations in food prices on global markets, which would threaten food security and nutrition for large numbers of the world's population, especially the most vulnerable who live in safe and low food environments.
Source (Al-Arabiya.net website, Edited)
