“After years of defending food reserves at WTO, India inspires Germany, Brazil to emulate its model”, the businessline, October 24, 2025
“India’s much-derided foodgrain stocking model is now attracting countries like Germany and Brazil which want to emulate it. While India has been facing opposition from the US and other countries at WTO on food stocking issue, the utility of creating food reserves is simultaneously evincing much interest among G-20.
“We must ensure that food reserves, when used in exceptional circumstances, are designed to be targeted, effective, and non-distorting. Furthermore, we must promote policy coherence across sectors, recognising that agriculture, trade, climate, health, and finance must work hand-in-hand to achieve real results,” South Africa’s agriculture minister John Steenhuisen told the G-20 Food Security Task Force recently.
Government sources said most countries in the G-20 block have begun collecting information on the food reserves system that has been in operation in India for last many decades……”
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