British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak defended a scientific approach to fighting hunger this Monday during an international summit in London, using artificial intelligence and other technologies to grow crops more resilient to climate change.
At the opening of the World Food Security Summit, which brought together ministers, diplomats and philanthropists from around 20 countries in the British capital, Rishi Sunak proposed a “fundamental change” in our approach to hunger, seeking “long-term, long-term solutions to stop food crises before they start.” “
“We need to harness the power of science and technology to ensure supply resilience against threats such as conflict, drought and floods,” he said.
Sunak said Britain was already using artificial intelligence to calculate the impact of climate change on agriculture, and that the work helped Somalia avoid a malnutrition crisis last year.
The head of the British government also announced the opening of a new virtual research center associated with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), to attract British scientists to projects in this area.
In a statement, the UK Foreign Office said the country has already helped, through CGIAR, develop products such as flood-resistant rice, disease-resistant wheat and biofortified, vitamin-rich sweet potatoes.
The World Food Security Summit is co-hosted by Somalia and the United Arab Emirates in conjunction with the Children’s Investment Fund and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
At least 20 countries were expected to be officially represented, including Mozambique, Brazil, Pakistan, Yemen, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Malawi.
According to the event program, Mozambique’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Celso Correia, was scheduled to speak at a session entitled “Building a sustainable and climate-resilient food system.”
The conference site was the target of a protest by Palestinian Medical Aid activists, who called for a ceasefire in the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas so that urgently needed food and humanitarian aid could be provided. get to Gaza.
“It’s good that they are talking about the problem of food and security in the world. But if they want to make it serious, they cannot ignore the situation in the Gaza Strip, where 2.2 million people are at risk of starvation,” he said. executive director of the activist organization Melanie Ward.
“Due to the blockade of the Gaza Strip, the amount of aid received over the past month is only enough to last about two normal days in Gaza. Thus, less than 10% of the food needed to support the lives of the population of Gaza arrives,” he said. warned.
The UK, like the US, has not called for a ceasefire, but Sunak called on Israel to agree to “urgent and significant humanitarian pauses” to allow food, fuel and medicine into Gaza, an area controlled by Hamas since 2007.
“The situation on the ground is truly tragic and continues to get worse,” the British Prime Minister said in his opening speech at the summit.
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Source: CM Jornal
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