A well-developed global market and fair trade are needed to ensure global food security, says a declaration signed by the agriculture ministers of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) in Moscow.
The Moscow summit is the successor of last year's BRIC forum in Yekaterinburg which discussed multilateral cooperation. According to Russia's Agriculture Minister Elena Skrynnik, the summit worked out the main guidelines in agriculture.
"Bilateral cooperation includes creating of a joint database to increase trade turnover between the BRIC countries, working out a strategy to provide food for the needy and cooperation in agriculture technology and innovation".
The BRIC countries significantly contribute to the world's food basket. They produce 40 per cent of world's wheat, 50 per cent of pork, more than 30 per cent of poultry. The countries' total population is 2.83 billion, which is 42% of the world's population. Naturally, the BRIC countries will contribute to the global food security by providing food for themselves, says the Foreign Relations expert Andrey Volodin
"India and China are the two most populated countries in the world. Their role may be in providing their population with food of appropriate quality and price, thus, reducing the world's food problem. The countries also need to ensure horizontal cooperation in agriculture to solve the food problem".
The Moscow meeting showed the countries' intention for closer cooperation within BRIC. Russia is already among the leading grain exporters and would like to supply more grain to Brazil. At the same time Brazil's meat provides for more than 50% of Russia's import. The issue of supplying Russian wheat to China is actively discussed. Thus, bilateral ties have a prospect, taking into consideration the volume of BRIC markets.
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