Agric Key to Fixing Environment – FAO

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says that agriculture is part of the solution to the world's environmental challenge, and must play a key role at next June's Rio summit on sustainable development (Rio+20).

The Brazilian head of FAO, Graziano da Silva, states that agriculture ministers from all over the world should attend the summit in June 2012 so that agriculture commits itself to helping clean up the planet.

The Rio+20 summit, the fourth major conference on sustainable development since 1972, will call on world leaders to commit themselves to creating a social and ‘green economy’, with priority being given to eradicating hunger.

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