 Distinguished delegates, Director-General. I present my respects to all the indigenous peoples of the world, including those who participate in this conference. I celebrate that the United Nations Organization for Agriculture and Food is focused on the management of hydropower resources at the conference of this year. As you know, Australia is the driest habitat in the world. We know of the value of solid hydropower policies that guarantee a use and a transparent, reversible and sustainable management of this vital resource. We hope to be able to bring our experiences to promote a greater hydropower incidence in agriculture this week. This conference of the FAO is an opportunity to gather together and consider the global challenges that affect agriculture. It allows us to collectively consider and take measures to ensure that our agricultural systems can support the 2030 Agenda of the United Nations and help to reach the ODS. The challenges and factors that promote food insecurity, climate change, COVID-19, and the costs of life, and conflicts are highly known. And although these challenges are immense, they are not unsurpassable. Australia condemns illegal and moral invasion of Ukraine by Russia, which continues to record the crisis of accessibility and the lack of food in the world. We make a call to Russia to immediately withdraw its forces from the Ukrainian territory and put an end to its error. There are solutions to improve agricultural production and to produce agricultural products in a more sustainable way, offering a basis for a more positive perspective. I am very proud of the innovations that the Australian farmers are applying. They are reducing emissions, increasing resilience, and adapting their practices to increase productivity in the long term and guarantee food security in the world. Although there is no single solution for all Australian farmers, they are using precision fertilization techniques, improving soil management practices, reducing water consumption, introducing hybrid technologies that reduce emissions. They are taking real measures to improve productivity and sustainability as they adapt and mitigate the effects of climate change. Our farmers are opening a path and our porcine and red-skinned industries have committed to a neutral production in carbon for 2025-2030, respectively, and they have the support of the Australian government, which is now set, and committed to reaching the net zero emissions for 2050. However, Australia is deeply concerned by the millions of people who suffer from acute food security and extreme hunger all over the world. If we want to reach the net zero in the world and respond to the worsening of the global food security crisis, we cannot do it in an isolated way. That is why Australia has committed to working with FAO to develop and deploy our sustainable and climatically intelligent practices at an international level, including the Pacific region of South-East Asia. That is why we continue to support our international partners in the struggle against the provocation of diseases that threaten food security. That is why we must ensure a greater inclusion of the peoples of the First Nations, of women and young people in all areas of value in agriculture. That is also why we ask that they re-assign the agricultural subventions that distort trade and are harmful to the environment and that the efforts to support a sustainable agriculture are affected. As a nation that exports more than 70% of its agricultural production, Australia acknowledges the value of free and open international trade. That is essential to support a stable, efficient and profitable supply of food. With the increase in climatic variability and natural disasters, the increase in supply of pests, diseases and droughts that affect the production more frequently, trade stabilizes supply and provides valuable income to farmers so that they can re-invest them in improvements. Last but not least, the aim is the work of the FAO in support of the World Agricultural Commission, particularly through its technical and normative knowledge. Now more than ever, Australia is willing to work in collaboration with the FAO and the world community to develop and share solutions that allow them to achieve the strategic objectives of the FAO, to know better production, nutrition, environment and a better life. Thank you very much in the name of Australia.