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Washington, 28 mar ( EFE).-scientific international submitted today a road map for world leaders to articulate sustainable agricultural policies to ensure access to food and to include the impact of climate change as a risk factor. “food insecurity and climate change are already hampering human well-being and economic growth throughout the world, and these problems tend to deepen it,” said the Chairman of the Committee of experts, sir John Beddington. Beddington urged to take “vigorous action” to preserve the ability of the planet to “produce an adequate amount of food in the future”. Commission on sustainable agriculture and climate change seeks to emphasise the need to take measures at a time when global demand and prices for agricultural products are increasing, while nearly a third of the food for human consumption is lost or wasted. At the same time climate change has brought with it an increased frequency of droughts, floods and outbreaks of diseases, causing the loss of twelve million hectares of arable land due to the degradation of the soil, according to experts annually. In this context, the concept of sustainable agriculture “it is revolutionary, is not something evolutionary (sic), since it changes the overall perception of the agriculture and food security,” said in statements to Efe Carlos Nobre, of the Ministry of science and technology and innovation of Brazil and member of the Commission. Nobre emphasized...