Agricultural innovations can address many of the world's most pressing problems. Growers in Canada and around the world are facing increasing challenges including pest pressures, climate change and global uncertainty. They need access to tools, including plant breeding innovations and pesticides, to grow more high-quality food to meet rising global demands while limiting agricultural impact on the environment. And they need fair, rules-based trade to access the global marketplace. Global leaders are turning their attention to the urgent issue of productivity and recognizing agriculture as a solutions provider.
At a recent B20 meeting in Brazil, the Sustainable Food Systems & Agriculture Task Force set out a series of recommendations to support climate resilience and farmer productivity. This task force brought together business leaders from the G20 countries representing the agricultural value chain and its recommendations were brought forward to the G20 Agricultural Working Group, which will inform G20 meetings in November 2024.
The recommendations of the task force focused on innovation and trade as solutions to food security and economic prosperity. They highlighted the need to enhance productivity growth by fostering scalable and science-based innovation and promoting a more equitable sustainable productivity growth cycle.
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