Oxfam has launched a fresh campaign to pressure the world's governments to boost investment in agriculture and better manage food supply to create a fairer and more sustainable food system it says is currently "broken."
Unless governments help support a new and more efficient way to grow and distribute the planet's food supply, it won't be enough to meet burgeoning food demand, which is expected to rise 70 percent by 2050, the non-for-profit body said.
The G20 must invest in the 500 million small scale farms in developing nations which offer the greatest potential for increasing global yields -- and they must help them adapt to a changing climate, Oxfam said. The campaign, called Grow, was presented in conjunction with the "Growing a Better Future" report.
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