Africa: Road to Rio - Improving Energy Use Key Challenge for World's Food Systems

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Agriculture's heavy dependence on fossil fuels is undermining the sector's ability to feed the world, perpetuating poverty and undermining efforts to build a more sustainable world economy, FAO said today.

The warning came as the UN Food and Agriculture Organization released a study on "energy-smart" food production and use ahead of the Rio+20 conference on sustainable development, where global energy challenges will figure high on the agenda.

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