Invitation Media Briefing: Ways of achieving a sustainable global food system
Bern, 13.8.2010 - One billion people are now starving. How can food security be improved throughout the world? What contribution is Swiss development cooperation making to the solution of the problem? How can developing countries benefit more from the globalised food market? Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey, SECO director Jean-Daniel Gerber and SDC director Martin Dahinden will give their answers to these questions at a media event to mark the beginning of the annual conference of Swiss development cooperation in Basel. The motto of the joint STC and SECO conference is "From seed in the soil to food on the plate”. It looks at ways of establishing a sustainable global food system.