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Nearly 300m people worldwide are suffering from acute #food #insecurity. But why? Wageningen University’s Bart de Steenhuijsen Piters talks to Juliet Mann only on CGTN Europe’s #TheAgenda

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00:00I'm convinced that at this moment we are producing globally enough food to feed each and everybody.
00:08It's much more distribution of that food which is key. And distribution of food is much more
00:15a question of governance. The way we govern food systems internationally, the way we treat
00:23food trade and regulate food trade across the world is more key than introducing more technology
00:32as such. So for me I would call for not dealing food as any other commodity like gas or whatever
00:44petrol and consider it an economic commodity as such but giving it another status. Because
00:53each and everybody needs food and therefore it needs to be considered as an essential ingredient
01:00for the well-being of people. And that needs another way of governance.

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