Meloni, Italy firmly joins the Alliance against hunger

(ANSA) – RIO DE JANEIRO, NOV 18 – Food safety was one of the “priority challenges” for the Italian presidency of the G7 which promoted the Apulia Food Systems Initiative, “a concrete initiative available to the G20” and which it also intends to operate “in synergy” with the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty, launched this morning by President Lula and to which “Italy firmly adheres”. According to what we learn, this is one of the messages launched by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni during the first session of the G20 in Rio de Janeiro. The “cooperation between the G7 and G20”, argued Meloni, can be “decisive” to find “concrete and effective solutions to the complexity of the challenges of our time”. Challenges, Meloni’s reasoning, are increasingly “interconnected” and which say that “the problems of the South are also the problems of the North of the world, and vice versa”. For Meloni “the interdependence of our destinies is a fact” and requires us to “think outside the box” of the past. The role of research is “fundamental but “not to produce food in the laboratory” which would mean moving towards a world in which “those who are rich will be able to eat natural food and those who are poor will be given synthetic food”. It is one of the concepts that, according to what we learn, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni reiterated at the G20 in Rio de Janeiro, repeating that this would not be “the world in which I want to live”. to always guarantee crops more resistant” to phytopathologies and extreme natural events, and cultivation techniques capable of improving production and reducing negative effects, such as excessive water consumption. A topic that particularly interests Africa, which has over 60% of uncultivated arable lands in the world. wealth. It is the reason, Meloni recalled, why a large segment of the Mattei Plan for Africa is dedicated “to agriculture and water”. With concrete projects that “are already bearing fruit”. In Egypt, Algeria, Kenya, Tunisia, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast and Mozambique. The financial aspect is “decisive”, added Meloni, underlining that Italy has defined financial instruments together with the African Development Bank and the World Bank to mobilize further resources. (HANDLE).