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 14 May 2008

UN official stresses importance of improving land productivity

The importance of producing more food has featured prominently in the session of the Commission on Sustainable Development taking place in New York.

UN Radio's Diane Bailey discusses the importance of agriculture with Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification.

He says the current global crisis has focused attention on the importance of agriculture and recalls a warning by the Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO.

(duration: 4'11")