G7 - key challenges to agriculture and accountability report on land commitments

A blog post on the Global Donor Platform, published on 31 May 2016, reviews the meeting of the Agricultural Ministers of the G7 countries ahead of the 2016 G7 meeting in Ise-Shima, Japan. The ministers recognised the successful placing of food security issues on the international agenda in the previous year. But the group also paid special attention to the challenges the agricultural sector is facing and the resulting threats to global food security. At the summit, the world leaders asked for more coherence in implementation of food security policies and the convening role of the Global Donor Platform was explicitly mentioned. The summit also delivered the first accountability report on land commitments and urged for higher level of implementation and accountability in the coming years.