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Why Sustainable Agriculture has to be a G20 priority

By Luis Miguel Etchevehere

Leaders of the largest economies meeting in Buenos Aires need to face the urgency of global food security.

Even though food is the most basic necessity in life, nowadays food insecurity threatens growth and progress in many parts of the world. We have made great strides over the last century, promoting development and creating a middle class in regions where it didn’t exist before. Despite this progress, more needs to be done. Nowhere is food insecurity more prevalent than in the developing world, in countries brimming with potential to transform their societies but finding themselves limited by life’s most basic need – food.

We shouldn’t accept this. As a global community we need to be...

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