Some four years after its launching, the 2020 Vision initiative is entering a new phase. While the first phase of the initiative focused on identifying the global challenges and elements of a global action program to realize the 2020 Vision, in phase II, the emphasis is on helping individual developing countries design and implement their own 2020 Vision strategies and action plans. The 2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture, and the Environment initiative seeks to identify the critical issues that must be confronted if the world s growing population is to be fed and the livelihoods of the poor and hungry are to be improved. At the same time, it will work to develop 2020 goals and strategies with individual developing countries that wish to do so, primarily through regional networks, initially in East and West Africa, and subsequently in other developing regions. We are tremendously excited about these plans, because phase II gives us the chance to help countries develop their own research agendas and actions for sustainably meeting the food needs of their people by 2020, said Pandya-Lorch.
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