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Agriculture: Farming

Answer

Defra intends to show strong international leadership on food security, carefully considering and acting upon the report's findings. Actions will include: Championing a more integrated approach by Governments and international institutions to global food security that makes links with climate change, poverty, biodiversity, energy and other policies. Continuing to press for full integration of agricultural greenhouse gases into the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, take forward Nagoya work on international biodiversity, and promote the importance of sustainable intensification of agriculture more broadly. Continuing to press for reform of the common agricultural policy and the common fisheries policy so they are better focused on long-term environmental sustainability and avoid harmful subsidies, support the EU as it seeks to negotiate a genuinely pro-poor conclusion to the Doha Development Round, which includes a significant opening of agricultural markets, and plan an active role in talks in the G20, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization and elsewhere aimed at finding ways of managing volatility. Showcasing what can be achieved on food waste reduction within the UK, working with other countries and multinational companies to share and disseminate good practice. Working in partnership with our whole food chain, including consumers, to ensure the UK leads the way on sustainable intensification of agriculture, increasing the productivity and competitiveness of UK farming and the UK food chain while reducing greenhouse gas emissions, protecting and enhancing the natural environment and using resources more sustainably, so that agriculture and the food sector can contribute fully to the green economy.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

8441; 727 c1-2WA

Session

2010-12

Subjects

Agriculture Climate change Food supply Sustainable development

Link

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