Proceedings of the FAO Symposium on Poverty Reduction and Promotion of Agricultural Investment 10 March 2010, Tokyo, Japan
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with extra budgetary financial support from de Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan (MAFF), has initiated the project "Support to study on appropriate policy measures to increase investments in agriculture and to stimulate food production" (GCP/267/JPN). The aim of the project is to identify a policy framework for promoting, facilitating and supporting acceleration of investment by the public and private secto r to achieve domestic capital formation for stimulating sustainable food production. As an activity of the project, FAO in collaboration with MAFF, organized the Symposium on Poverty Reduction and Promotion of Agricultural Investment in Tokyo on 10 March 2010 with Dr Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary-General, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), as the keynote speaker. The discussion focused on two themes: Private Sector Approach to Poverty Reduction and Promotion of International Agricultural Investments. It highlighted the importance of increasing agricultural investments for increasing agricultural production and suggested various pragmatic approaches to induce different sectors and stakeholders to invest in agriculture. These Proceedings put together the summary report, papers presented, presentations shown at the Symposium and other related materials.