食料囲い込みけん制　コロナ危機、安定供給確認―Ｇ２０農相

　日米欧や中国など２０カ国・地域（Ｇ２０）の農業担当相は２１日、テレビ会議を開催した。新型コロナウイルスの世界的な流行下でも、各国・地域が協調して食料の安定供給体制を維持することで合意した。一部の国が小麦などの輸出を制限しており、食料安全保障の観点からこうした動きをけん制する狙いだ。

　会議は「国際市場での過度な食料価格の乱高下につながり、また食料安全保障を脅かすいかなる不当な制限的措置も行われないよう注意する」とする共同声明を採択して終了した。（2020/04/22-01:39）

Farm ministers of the Group of 20 advanced and emerging economies agreed Tuesday to work together for maintaining stable food supplies as the world is fighting the novel coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 respiratory disease.
   Reaching the agreement at a videoconference, the ministers issued, from a food security perspective, a warming against moves by some countries to restrict exports of food such as wheat.
   "We commit to cooperating closely and taking concrete actions to safeguard global food security and nutrition," the ministers said in a joint statement, adding, "We reaffirm the importance of working to ensure the continued flow of food, products and inputs essential for agricultural and food production across borders."
   The ministers vowed to "guard against any unjustified restrictive measures that could lead to excessive food price volatility in international markets and threaten the food security and nutrition of large proportions of the world population."
   "We acknowledge the challenges of minimizing the risk of COVID-19 while keeping food supply chains functioning," said the ministers from the 20 economies, including the Group of Seven major industrial nations of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States, as well as Australia, China, India and the European Union.