Director General Shenggen Fan was interviewed on CCTV to discuss COP22, which is happening in Marrakesh, Morocco.
“One is technology. New technologies, new varieties, crop varieties can enhance the yield and increase the yield, can reduce carbon emission, can also use less water less land,” he told CCTV reporter Miro Lu. “We mush reshape our agricultural and food system to make sure that the policy will help to reduce subsidies, water subsidies, fertiliser subsidies, electricity subsidies, output subsidies, And use saved money to promote more nutritious food production. And also our thinking, our thinking must also change, what we eat, we need to take into consideration of the impact on our nutrition, on our environment, on climate change.”
Watch the full video here.