The head of a UN agency working to shore up rural food systems says richer countries need to boost proactive aid to developing states, as Ottawa increasingly shifts its focus to humanitarian support for crises that have already happened.
“We continue going from food crisis to food crisis,” Alvaro Lario, head of the International Fund of Agricultural Development, said during a recent visit to Ottawa.
“If
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