The collaborators in all network countries have taken full ownership of the 2020 Vision initiative. While the 2020 Vision may be difficult to fully realize by 2020, action must be initiated now if progress is to be made over the next quarter century in feeding the world, preventing poverty, and protecting the environment. In Phase I, which concluded in December 1996, the 2020 Vision initiative took a global view and 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 developing countries design and implement their own 2020 strategies and action plans . The 2020 Vision will only be realized if individual countries in the developing world conduct their own 2020 Vision research and engage in their own 2020 Vision dialogue about food, agricultural, and environmental issues within their own policymaking circles.
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