{"id":88303,"date":"2020-04-23T11:21:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T05:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=14992"},"modified":"2020-04-23T11:21:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T05:51:30","slug":"agriculture-minister-joins-g-20-meet-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/agriculture-minister-joins-g-20-meet-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Agriculture minister joins G-20 meet over"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Union Agriculture Minister participated in an virtual meeting of G-20 Agriculture Ministers which was organised by the Saudi Presidency<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The meeting sought to address the issue of Covid-19 impacts on food security, safety and nutrition.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Highlights of the meet:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>No export restrictions or high taxes on food and agricultural products purchased by the World Food Programme (WFP) and other humanitarian agencies.<\/li><li>The International Fund for Agricultural Development will help in technical assistance, and work to improve resilience in agriculture.<\/li><li>The G20 AMIS (Agricultural Market Information System) will help coordinate policy responses.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>World Food Programme:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is the food assistance branch of the United Nations, established in 1961.<\/li><li>Aim:To eradicate hunger and malnutrition with the ultimate goal of eliminating the need for food aid itself.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>International Fund for Agricultural Development<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Established in 1977, it is an international financial institution and a specialised agency of the United Nations. It works to address poverty and hunger in rural areas of developing countries<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>G20 AMIS (Agricultural Market Information System)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is an inter-agency platform to enhance food market transparency and encourage international policy coordination in times of crisis. It was established in 2011 at the request of G20 countries.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>G20:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is an informal group of 19 countries and the European Union with representatives of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/ZE5TpW9L0RZHgowyBbyn9Ause46pPuc_x5cUJI9MLDiLwiBUAFeKUjA69Rgwp4lwC0yUkJIyubxGEX1ewOZrhaaqGaIVlqusTPilzvsCOJJQ0VX3nafdpPrrwiVlmKiM0aeXHSpS\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Union Agriculture Minister participated in an virtual meeting of G-20 Agriculture Ministers which was organised by the Saudi Presidency Facts: The meeting sought to address the issue of Covid-19 impacts on food security, safety and nutrition. Highlights of the meet: No export restrictions or high taxes on food and agricultural products purchased by the World&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/agriculture-minister-joins-g-20-meet-over\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Agriculture minister joins G-20 meet over<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[218,3529],"class_list":["post-88303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-agriculture","tag-g20","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704898384},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}