ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Dominica is amongst 25 international locations collaborating in a World Financial institution initiative to develop a meals safety preparedness plan. The World Financial institution’s senior agricultural economist, Ava Hasiner, mentioned the meals safety preparedness plan will allow Dominica to take motion earlier than a meals disaster.
“The plan goals at two massive areas, serving to Dominica to outline meals and vitamin safety indicators and thresholds and to how one can measure, , when a possible disaster hits in addition to the working system and the way the data is collected and handed on to senior authorities stage officers.”
Hasiner mentioned the plan can also be geared toward serving to Dominica outline upfront an rising meals safety scenario, “and it doubtlessly helps Dominica in responding upfront, sooner than regular, to these crises by going to the donor neighborhood…and searching for further funding in responding to the disaster forward of time”.
She mentioned that the World Financial institution want to assist these international locations concerned within the challenge reply to the issues “forward of time,” noting that “normally when a disaster hits, there are a variety of challenges that international locations face.
‘We wish to assist these international locations mobilize their funding and reply forward of time. It’s an important train, we predict that may assist a variety of international locations…with meals costs going up and it may very well be a hurricane that hits the nation or a catastrophe like a possible illness breaking out that impacts meals provide within the nation,” she added.
The challenge officer within the Ministry of Agriculture, Miranda Laurent Stephenson, mentioned that the draft plan might be introduced to the ministry employees on Monday.
She mentioned the plan began with the primary mission from the World Financial institution in April, which concerned assembly with stakeholders and amassing info to create a draft.
“That is their second mission, and they’re going to current the draft to the ministry’s employees first. And tomorrow, we can have different folks attending from the Central Statistics Workplace, the Met workplace, the ODM (Workplace of Catastrophe Administration), different stakeholders from DEXIA (Dominica Export Import Company), and different integral companions”.
Stephenson mentioned the entire meals safety course of “is a pre-requisite for international locations entry funds from the World Financial institution.”
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