3 June 2008: The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Director-General, Pascal Lamy, addressed the High-Level Conference on World Food Security, which met in Rome, Italy, from 3-5 June 2006, where he highlighted climate change’s impacts on agriculture, including the potentially greater scarcity of water, and called attention to the water-saving potential of international trade, by preventing […]
3 June 2008: The World Trade
Organization’s (WTO) Director-General, Pascal Lamy, addressed the High-Level
Conference on World Food Security, which met in Rome, Italy, from 3-5 June
2006, where he highlighted climate change’s impacts on agriculture, including
the potentially greater scarcity of water, and called attention to the
water-saving potential of international trade, by preventing the unnecessary
growth of agriculture in countries without access to sufficient water resources.
Lamy emphasized that international trade will help countries to cope with
soaring food prices and adjust food supply to demand, and said “easier, more
open trade can strengthen the production capacity of developing countries,
rendering them less vulnerable.” [Statement]