Tackling the global food crisis in 2023

Business Daily

BBC

News, Business

4.4 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The new president of the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development, Alvaro Lario tells us why the pandemic, war in Ukraine and climate change have created a perfect storm for global food security and what can be done about that.

The BBC’s Frey Lindsay hears from people around the world who are dealing with the food crisis. Alvaro Lario explains how food shortages often begin with smallholder farmers. The failure of their crops and livestock means farmers are often left struggling to feed themselves and this then affects entire communities. Lario also discusses his vision for how private finance and multilateral institutions can team up and to avert the worst in the coming 12 months.

Producer/presenter: Frey Lindsay

(Image: Farming fields. Credit: Getty Images)

Transcript

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0:00.0	The comb is back.
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0:17.8	Hello and welcome to Business Daily on the BBC World Service. I'm Frey Lindsay.
0:22.6	Before COVID, actually there was not that much awareness of the structural weaknesses of food systems and rural areas.
0:31.6	So actually it was just a matter of time that we got into the next crisis.
0:35.6	That's Alvaro Lario.
0:37.9	He's president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development.
0:41.3	Today we're going to be talking with Alvaro about how the perfect storm of COVID,
0:45.2	the war in Ukraine and climate change continue to perpetuate a catastrophe in global
0:50.4	food security.
0:51.3	And we're also going to explore why Alvaro thinks these crises will continue
0:55.0	if we don't start preparing and spending to mitigate their effects. I hope that actually the
1:00.5	big investments that are needed in terms of food system transformation, which would account around
1:05.3	300, 400 billion per year, will still be in the public attention in the next year. Otherwise, we will drift
1:13.6	just from this crisis to the next crisis. It could happen in one, two, three, four years.
1:18.6	A dire warning or a roadmap to a more stable global food system. That's all here on Business Daily.
1:32.4	A little boy lost.
1:38.9	In a crowded hospital, the familiar and unbearable signs of famine.
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