The heads of the United Nations Meals and Agriculture Group (FAO) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) have agreed to step up their joint efforts aimed toward strengthening household farming and meals safety in two of essentially the most weak areas of the Americas: the Caribbean and the Central American Dry Hall.
Qu Dongyu and Manuel Otero met in Rome, the place the IICA Director Normal is on an official mission and the place he can be participating in a debate on meals safety as a part of the Second Roundtable of African Farmers. The occasion, which can tackle entry to applied sciences for regenerative agriculture and efforts to fight meals insecurity, can be held on the Pontifical Institute Augustinianum, in Vatican Metropolis.
On the assembly, Qu Dongyu, accompanied by FAO Chief Economist Máximo Torero and senior members of his staff, and Otero, together with his particular advisors Jorge Werthein and Carlos Cherniak, reviewed IICA and FAO’s joint cooperation actions, which embody the preparation of a report on the outlook for agricultural and rural growth in Latin America and the Caribbean, and help for CELAC’s meals safety plan.
“We will do rather more, particularly in areas the place issues of maximum vulnerability must be addressed, such because the Central American Dry Hall and Caribbean international locations, that are more and more uncovered to extra frequent and extra intense excessive climate occasions,” Otero mentioned after the assembly with Qu. “We talked about reinforcing, stepping up that joint work and that’s what we’re going to do,” he added.
Qu expressed curiosity in strengthening FAO and IICA’s joint work, set out his imaginative and prescient for coping with the scenario in Haiti and within the Central American Dry Hall, and underlined his willpower to spice up the synergies with IICA.
Throughout his working go to to Rome, Otero won’t solely be participating within the roundtable organized by the World Farmers’ Group (WFO), the International Farmer Community (GFN), the Bayer meals firm, the African Agricultural Know-how Basis (AATF) and IICA itself, however may also be assembly with Valerie Guarnieri, from the World Meals Programme (WFP); Carmen Burbano, from the Govt Secretariat of the Faculty Meals Coalition; and Roberto Colaminé, Deputy Director Normal of Growth Cooperation at Italy’s Ministry of International Affairs and Worldwide Cooperation.
