UN's Food and Agriculture Organization's, FAO, has said the BRICS countries are well positioned to take a leading role in helping achieve the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate accord. <br/>Kundhavi Kadiresan, Assistant Director-General and FAO's Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific, said it at the 7th Meeting of the BRICS Ministers of Agriculture, in Nanjing, China. She said that accelerating rural development will be key to achieving Sustainable Development Goals.<br/>FAO has cited India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act as key social programmes that play a vital role in rural development.<br/>BRICS is the acronym for an association of the world's five major emerging national economies- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.