Vietnam is ready to share experiences and cooperate in agriculture with other countries.

Việt Nam sẵn sàng chia sẻ kinh nghiệm và hợp tác nông nghiệp với các nước - Ảnh 1. — Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang affirmed that Vietnam is ready to share experiences and cooperate with other countries in rural agricultural development - Photo: VGP/Hai Minh

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang affirmed the above viewpoint when delivering the opening speech at the 4th Global Conference on Food Systems (GFS) in Hanoi on the morning of April 24.

The above viewpoint shows that Vietnam wishes to continue contributing to the international community's common efforts in addressing global food security challenges, and hopes that countries will increase cooperation and participate responsibly in this issue.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), countries around the world are concerned about the risk of food insecurity due to the impacts of climate change, loss of biodiversity, emerging pandemics including COVID-19, conflicts and rising prices of raw materials for food production.

FAO said hunger is still on the rise, with the number of people affected reaching 828 million in 2021. In the Asia-Pacific region, the realization of the sustainable development goals is expected to be achieved only in 2065, 3.5 decades later than originally planned.

Faced with the above situation, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang stated that the issue has become more urgent than ever and that now and no other time, we must act immediately to protect the planet - the common home of all of us and future generations.

Mr. Qu Dongyu, Director-General of FAO, also said that the current context requires an urgent transformation of the food security system towards a more effective, comprehensive, flexible and sustainable direction. To do this, all countries must join hands.

The Deputy Prime Minister said that in March, the Vietnamese Government issued the National Action Plan for Transforming the Food Safety System by 2030 with the goal of becoming a country that produces and supplies transparent, responsible, and sustainable food, as Vietnam committed to at the UN Summit on the Food Safety System in 2021.

On this occasion, the Deputy Prime Minister expressed his sincere thanks and wished to continue receiving support and assistance for Vietnam from UN organizations, especially the Sustainable Development Goals Program, the international community, donors, research institutes, non-governmental organizations, and businesses.

Việt Nam sẵn sàng chia sẻ kinh nghiệm và hợp tác nông nghiệp với các nước - Ảnh 2. — The 4th Global Conference on the LTTP System has the theme "Together transforming the LTTP system to be healthy, sustainable, and adaptable to climate change in the context of the new crisis" - Photo: VGP/Hai Minh

The 4th Global Conference on the LTTP System with the theme "Together transforming the LTTP system to be healthy, sustainable, and adaptable to climate change in the context of the new crisis" was hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam.

This is a Ministerial Conference with the participation of over 300 delegates, including nearly 200 international delegates from many countries, United Nations agencies, and international organizations.

Among the international delegates were the Ministers of Switzerland, Malawi, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Deputy Ministers of Ghana, Kenya; Executive Director of UNIDO, Global Director of Partnerships and Policy of the CGIAR, Director General of the International Biodiversity Alliance and CIAT. The Minister of Agriculture of Costa Rica and the Director General of FAO attended online.

On the Vietnamese side, the Conference was attended by leaders of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Health, Vietnam Farmers' Union and relevant agencies at the central and local levels; along with large corporations and enterprises at home and abroad.

Right before this conference, on April 22, the Agriculture Ministers of the countries in the Group of Seven (G7) of the world's leading industrialized countries met in Miyazaki City, Southwest Japan, to seek solutions to ensure a stable food supply.

G7 Ministers agreed to expand food production and support developing countries to enhance food security on the basis of promoting sustainable, environmentally friendly agriculture.

The objective of the Conference is to review the main barriers, difficulties and challenges related to the transformation of the LTTP system and propose solutions, focusing on the following four issues: Global model/architecture of the LTTP system; national and local policies and governance of the LTTP system; consumption and production models of the LTTP system; methods of implementing the transformation of the LTTP system.

In addition, the Conference will introduce good and typical models of LTTP system transformation in countries and international initiatives.

Immediately after the opening session, the Conference held three ministerial-level discussions. Session 1 was attended by Vietnamese Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan; Swiss Minister of Agriculture Christian Hofer; and Ethiopian Minister of Agriculture Meles Mekonen.

Session 2 had the participation of Rwanda's Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources Ildephonse Musafiri; Cambodia's Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries San Vanty; and Kenya's Secretary General for Agricultural and Livestock Development, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Cooperatives Mithika Linturi.

Session 3 was attended by Malawian Minister of Agriculture Samuel Kawale; Ghana's Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food Yaw Addo Frimpong; St. Vincent and the Grenadines Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, Rural Transformation, Industry and Labour Saboto Caesar./.

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