April 2, 2014 - Food & Agriculture
In an exclusive interview with viEUws, Pascal Lamy – former Director General of the World Trade Organisation and Honorary President of Notre Europe - Jacques Delors Institute – talks to AGRA FACTS journalist Rose O’Donovan about the agricultural dimension of trade at the Forum on the Future of Agriculture 2014.
Lamy claims in the interview that the biggest challenge for agriculture is to produce more and different food, addressing increasing demand for food quality and safety. Furthermore, food waste needs to be addressed: “the amount of food that is wasted along the production to consumer chain creates a huge pit of efficiency which is still unexploited”. However, the most important aspect – according to the former EU Trade Commissioner – is to continue the path towards a multilateral trade deal, which is “the most efficient and fairest” and would help to address food security related issues.
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