Governments from
the Near East and North Africa (NENA) has wrapped up a five-day meeting on
regional food security challenges pledging enhanced cooperation to tackle the
critical issues of water management, food waste and building more resilient
rural communities, reports NaijAgroNet.
The communiqué
made available to NaijAgroNet
after the 32nd regional conference of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
for the Near East and North Africa, endorsed three key proposals tabled during
the talks.
NaijAgroNet also reports that the
first was a regional strategy framework to bring countries together to improve
food security and nutrition. Though at present, the number of undernourished
people in the 19 countries of the Near East and North Africa remains high at
nearly 43.7 million, or 10 per cent of the population.
Reducing those
numbers while coping with a ongoing population growth, increasing scarcity of
natural resources and climate change will require much closer
inter-governmental cooperation.
The framework
endorsed today calls on governments to work together to address lagging productivity growth through
increased investment in research and development; improvements to supply chain
efficiencies that will reduce exposure to market volatility and other shocks;
and strengthened safety nets and nutrition education programs.
The creation of
strategic regional cereal reserves to help offset spikes in commodity prices is
another tool considered by the framework.
Isaac
Oyimah/GEE
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