KEY MESSAGES

During recent decades, agriculture has developed rapidly in China, ensuring food security and enriching residents’ diets.

The unsustainable agricultural production mode of “high input and high output” has imposed a heavy burden on China’s ecosystems, and severely restricted the sustainable development of the country’s agrifood systems.

With rapid improvements in agricultural productivity and residents’ income, China has made remarkable advances in reducing hunger and malnutrition, as well as quality improvements in residents’ diets, witnessed by the progressively increasing cons

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 has caused a global public health crisis. It has also severely damaged the world’s agrifood systems.

Global agricultural trade has seen tremendous growth since creation of the WTO in 1995 and US agriculture has been a major beneficiary of the rules-based system that the United States and others helped create.

After two decades of economic decline and stagnation, Africa has witnessed a remarkable overall economic and agricultural recovery over the last decade.

Recent dramatic increases in food prices are having severe consequences for poor countries and poor people.

The prices of maize, wheat, rice, and other crops have more than doubled over the past two years.

"The food price crisis hits a world that has the most unequal distribution of income ever, and a world that has left the poorest behind.

"World agriculture has entered a new, unsustainable, and politically risky period.