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Jeronimos Campus of the Catholic University of Murcia has hosted a conference for reflection and debate for Responsible Investment in Agriculture, through experiences in the Region of Murcia.

In the event they have participated leading specialists related to the field as Rodrigo Castaneda, head of the unit alliances FAO HQ Rome;

Adolfo Cazorla Montero, director of the International School of Doctorates at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and director of the group GESPLAN;

Estrella Nunez, vice provost for Research UCAM and Teodora Carmen Morales, Director General of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Aquaculture Murcia;

among other representatives of the world of agriculture.

Rodrigo Castaneda explained that the FAO is an international organization of government trying to eradicate world hunger: "There are 795 million hungry people on earth, so discuss issues of promoting responsible investment in agriculture is vital to ensure access to feed the entire population, "and has said that is a very important production model" because they are the only international principles that were agreed by all governments, which advocate sustainable agriculture, care is taken with the environment, there is food security, which care workers. a good investment produces excellent benefits. We must invest, but do well. "

Meanwhile, Adolfo Cazorla Montero, director of the group GESPLAN, event organizer, said that "this idea stems from an agreement signed with FAO in Rome to locate laboratories called 'living' where sustainable farming practices are done."

Also present Carmen Teodora Morales, Director General of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Aquaculture in the Region of Murcia, who has indicated that Murcia is within the European model where some programs are aimed intelligent development of agriculture, livestock and fisheries.

"In Murcia, in recent years has launched the new period of European funds that have highlighted the need for environmental and social factors are taken into account," he said.

Estrella Nunez, vice provost for Research UCAM, stressed that increasingly need a greater amount of food in the world, "there is a large portion of the global population without access to food, therefore, this investment should be responsible and sustainable, young people and women involved in the agricultural business world, and thus, respecting the traditions and making sustainable farming, can make the world a little better. "

The conference, organized within the FAO-UPM agreement and with the collaboration of the UCAM, aim to contribute to the dissemination of the Principles for Responsible Investment in approved by the Committee on Food Security in 2014 Agriculture.

Source: UCAM