Food security, fluctuating food prices and world hunger will be among the key issues on the agenda at the meeting of Group of Eight agriculture ministers in Italy next month, Italian Agriculture Minister Luca Zaia said on Monday.
The meeting, from April 18 to 20 in the northern town of Cison di Valmarino, near Treviso, will also deal with increasing productivity in developing countries and the identity of food products.
Also attending the meeting will be Czech agriculture minister Petr Gandalovic, whose country is the current European Union duty president, EU Agriculture Commissioner Marianne Fischer Boel and ministers from Brazil, China, India, Mexico, South Africa and Egypt as well as representatives from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Zaia said Italy was particularly concerned over fluctuating food prices.
