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Robert Gabriel Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe, said his country adopted a biofuels strategy using marginalized lands. |
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Malam Bacai Sanhá, President of Guinea-Bissau, urged a positive outcome for the Doha negotiations. |
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Fernando Armindo Lugo Méndez, President of Paraguay, highlighted the role of women in agriculture. |
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Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama, Prime Minister of Fiji |
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Jaume Bartumeu Cassany, Head of the Government of Andorra |
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Tigran Sargsyan, Prime Minister of Armenia |
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Jim Marurai, Prime Minister of the Cook Islands, said the world is becoming “too accepting of the word hunger.” |
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
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Ulises Rosales del Toro, Minister of Agriculture and Vice President, Cuba, identified systemic reasons as the main cause of the current global crisis. |
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Gerda Verburg, Minister for Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality of the Netherlands |
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Eva Kjer Hansen,
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Sirkka-Liisa Anttila, Minister for Agriculture and Forestry of Finland |
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Gladys Francisca Urbaneja Durán, Ambassador of Venezuela |
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Sadeq Khalilian, Minister of Jihad and Agriculture of the Islamic Republic of Iran |
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Jacques Chasteau de Balyon, Ambassador and Permanent Representative Designate of Mauritius |
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Cecilia Obono Ndong, Ambassador of Equatorial Guinea to Italy |
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Lily Caravantes, Secretary of the Ministry of Food and Nutrition Security of Guatemala |
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L-R: Pat Mooney, Executive Director, Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration; Maria del Carmen Squeff, Alternate Permanent Representative of Argentina to FAO; Mariann Fischer Boel, European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development; Guilherme Cassel, Minister for Agrarian Development, Brazil; Uma Lele, Special Adviser, M.S. Swaminathan Foundation; and Tesfai Tecle, Special Adviser to Kofi Annan, Chair of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa |
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Participants during the discussion. |
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L-R: Shivaji Pandey, Director Plant Production and Protection Division, FAO; Florin Vladu, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC); Mahmoud Solh, Director General, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA); Co-Chair Tony Burke, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Australia; Co-Chair Hasina Wajed, Prime Minister of Bangladesh; Matia Chowdhury, Minister of Agriculture, Bangladesh; M.S. Swaminathan, President, M.S. Swaminathan Foundation; Ger Bergkamp, Director General, World Water Council; and Alexander Müller, Assistant Director-General, Natural Resources Management and Environment Department, FAO |
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Participants during the discussion. |
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