The FAO Regional Workplace for Latin America and the Caribbean and the FAO Liaison Workplace in Brussels co-organized an occasion titled “Nourishing the Future: Robust Partnerships for Meals Safety and Higher Vitamin in Latin America and the Caribbean”.
The target of the high-level occasion was to debate challenges and alternatives within the framework of EU-LAC partnership for meals safety and diet, given the brand new urgent international challenges, and the up to date CELAC Meals Safety and Vitamin Plan 2030.
FAO Assistant Director-Normal and Regional Consultant for Latin America and the Caribbean, Mario Lubetkin, and the Director of the FAO Liaison Workplace in Brussels, Raschad Al-Khafaji welcomed representatives from the European Union, Latin American and Caribbean Embassies based mostly in Brussels, academia and civil society.
The Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, Rural Transformation, Trade and Labor of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and President professional tempore of CELAC, Saboto Caesar, delivered a keynote tackle by which he highlighted the necessity to work nearer with the EU establishments in a partnership that draws extra investments, boosts commerce and makes use of fashionable applied sciences to unlock the complete potential of the Latin American and Caribbean area.
In his speech, Lubetkin pressured the significance of dialogue between the European Union and the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to strengthen multilateral cooperation. He additionally highlighted the urgency of addressing the worldwide commitments of the 2030 Agenda and the complicated challenges to ensure meals safety.
On this regard, Lubetkin underscored the position of the European Union (EU) as a key associate in FAO’s work in Latin America and the Caribbean. “Below totally different cooperation agreements and applications with the EU, we’re growing very related initiatives to rework agrifood methods. The brand new CELAC Meals Safety and Vitamin Plan 2030, accepted in January by the ministers of Agriculture, is a wonderful alternative to strengthen and open new methods of cooperation between the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean”, mentioned Lubetkin.
Raschad Al-Khafaji, Director of the FAO Liaison Workplace in Brussels welcomed the individuals and pressured significantly the position of FAO as a strategic and devoted associate in contributing to international efforts to realize the Sustainable Growth Objective 2 – Zero starvation. “This high-level assembly is devoted on the transformative journey of agrifood methods within the Latin America and the Caribbean area aligned with the renewed worldwide dedication to the 2030 Agenda, the outcomes of the SDG Summit in New York final September”, he mentioned.
Among the many panelists have been Pedro Miguel da Costa e Silva, Ambassador of Brazil to the EU, Junior Lodge, Assistant Secretary-Normal of the Organisation for Africa, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS), Ignacio Ybáñez, Particular Envoy on Small Island Creating States on the European Exterior Motion Service and former Ambassador of the European Union in Brazil; and Josep Puxeu Rocamora, Vice-Chair Latin America follow-up Committee from the European Financial and Social Committee (EESC).
In his concluding remarks Mario Lubetkin expressed his eagerness to proceed this dynamic dialogue for the transformation of our agrifood methods that began right here in Brussels.
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