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Agriculture: The smartest investment for sustainable development

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Bruce Campbell in an opinion piece on Huffington Post writes, "The SDGs are complex because the challenges facing our planet (feeding 9.6 billion people from shrinking resources in a climate-extreme world for a start) are equally complicated." Campbell advocates for investment in agriculture as a cost effective means to tackle several SDGs in one stroke.

Describing the work of the CGIAR Program for Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) with the Indian government and the Agriculture Insurance Company of India to develop better insurance systems, Campbell hails it as a model which needs to be scaled up. While millions of farmers are already seeing the benefits from insurance, only 20 per cent of farmers in India use crop insurance.

Bruce Campbell is Director, CGIAR Research Progam on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)

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