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Farming

Answer

In response to the Foresight report the Government plan to take the following actions:"Champion 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.""Explore further with Foresight, the United Nations (UN) High-Level Task Force on the Food Security Crisis and UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) the concept of a 'food system dashboard' to support this integrated approach, monitoring progress and key areas of uncertainty across the whole food system.""Continue to press for full integration of agricultural greenhouse gases (GHGs) into the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change process; take forward Nagoya work on international biodiversity; and promote the importance of sustainable intensification of agriculture more broadly.""Continue to press for reform of the common agricultural policy and 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, FAO and elsewhere aimed at finding ways of managing volatility.""Showcase what can be achieved on food waste reduction within the UK, working with other countries and multinational companies to share and disseminate good practice.""Work 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 GHG 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

55526; 528 c371W

Session

2010-12

Related items

Farming
Monday, 3 October 2011
Written questions
House of Commons

Subjects

Agriculture

Link

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