Source: Council of Agriculture
According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) research, as high as 1.3 billion metric tons of food, or one-third of the annual global food production, get lost and wasted every year. Particularly, the food losses and wastes occur at...
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The Taiwan-Peru-New Zealand joint hosting of the 2016 APEC Conference on Minimizing Retailer and Consumer Food Losses and Wastes on September 22 has raised a high attention among APEC member countries. The successful close of this conference will propose several...
South Korea will host a meeting of agriculture ministers from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member economies this weekend to discuss measures to bolster food security in the region, officials said Monday.
The meeting will take place in Incheon, west of Seoul, on Sunday under the theme "Driving Innovation in Agri-food Systems for Shared Prosperity," according to officials from Seoul's agriculture ministry.
Ministers from the 21 APEC member economies, including the United States, China, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Australia and Russia, are expected to attend the upcoming meeting to discuss strategies for enhancing food security in the Asia-Pacific region.
"As concerns over food security are growing amid the climate crisis and global supply chain disruptions, it is especially meaningful for South Korea, a nation at the forefront of agricultural innovation, to engage in discussions on food security cooperation with APEC member economies," Agriculture Minister Song Mi-ryung said in a press release.
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