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Guest column: Supporting smallholders is crucial to food security

By Lennart Bage

Published: July 6 2008 18:27 | Last updated: July 6 2008 18:27

Leaders meeting for the G8 summit in Japan have a unique opportunity to start undoing the damage wrought by decades of neglect of agriculture.

It is increasingly clear that the most pressing issues of our time – food security, climate change, energy, and poverty reduction – are interdependent. It is right that agriculture has been chosen as a central theme of this year’s G8 meeting.

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