Africa: Food Safety and Trade Should Improve Nutrition and Boost Development - UN Agencies

2 November 2015

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreed today to strengthen their cooperation to promote international food trade and safety in ways that improve nutrition and allow small-scale producers to have better access to international agricultural markets.

"We look forward to ensuring fair trade of agricultural and food products through this stronger (FAO-WTO) cooperation," FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said in remarks at an event at the agency's headquarters in Rome.

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