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Agriculture ministers meeting in Berlin welcomes the FAO-designed concept for an International Digital Council for Food and Agriculture

FAO Director-General hails agreement to establish the international body to promote digital technologies for sustainable agriculture and food security.

date:  18/01/2020

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18 January 2020, Berlin - The Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) drew to a close today with the agriculture ministers of 71 nations, thanking FAO and the other International Organisations for developing a concept for the establishment of an International Digital Council for Food and Agriculture, as requested in the 2019 GFFA Final Communiqué. They welcomed FAO's efforts on the concept and call upon FAO's governing bodies to support a process for its establishment.

Full text availawble here: http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/1257921/icode/