China has made positive contributions to safeguarding world food security

Original title: China has made positive contributions to safeguarding world food security

On the occasion of World Food Day 2020, reporters from China’s food department,FAOOther institutions have learned that China uses 9% of the world’s arable land to feed almost 20% of the world’s population and is actively involved in eradicating hunger and the global food trade. China has made positive contributions to maintaining world food security.

National food andSuppliesDirector Zhang Wufengto acceptIn an exclusive interview with a reporter for the Xinhua News Agency, China uses 9% of the world’s arable land and 6% of freshwater resources to produce food, feeding almost 20% of the world’s population. . The historical shift from “getting well” is in itself a great contribution to the world. As the largest developing country and a responsible power, China is an active force in safeguarding global food security. China will continue to promote South-South cooperation in the food sector, explore new models of international food cooperation, and jointly deepen and build the economic and food trade cooperation relationship of the “Belt and Road” countries, in order to achieve the sustainable development of the United Nations in 2030objectives“Eliminate hunger, achieve food security,to get betterNutritional status and promotion of sustainable agriculture “.

On World Food Day 2020, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in ChinaRepresentative officeattorneyOn behalf of Ou Minxing, he said that food is the foundation of human survival.cultureDevelopment andsocietyThe cornerstone of progress. This year we are very happy to see China interpret solidarity and cooperation with concrete actions; Faced with the epidemic, the Chinese government has issued a series of policies to stabilize production and ensure supply; Chinese e-commercecompanyTake innovative steps to developAgricultural productsonline saleChannels; the Chinese people are united to overcome difficulties and contain the spread of the epidemic in a short period of time, while ensuring foodmarketAdequate supply,pricesoft.

As the world’s largest international grain trader by asset, COFCO released data on World Food DayreportHe said that when performingForeign tradeCooperation, COFCO Group actively deploys the world’s major grain production areas, such as North and South America, Oceania and the Black Sea region, opening the main grain production areas and the main sales areasCirculationChannel to become a global foodsupply chain, An important force to maintain the balance of global food supply and demand.To ensure the internationalFood supply chainStable, COFCO combined with ADM,Kuniyoshi, Cargill, Louis Dreyfus,GlencoreAnd other major grain traders established Novartis SA Digital Agriculture in Genevainternational tradethe company， UseBlockchainTechnological advanceinternational tradeDigitize, reduce effectivelyTransaction riskAn important step has been taken to build a new, safer, more stable and efficient pattern of the international food supply chain.

(Source: Xinhua News Agency)

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