Food and
nutrition security, climate change and soils are among the key issues slated
for discussion in the coming months between Food and Agricultural Organisation
(FAO) and the European Union (EU), NaijaAgroNet learnt.
According to a press release made available to NaijaAgroNet on Thursday, this follows series of meetings involving FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva and EU high-level representatives that were held on Tuesday and Wednesday in Brussels.
Graziano da Silva, NajaAgroNet further learnt, met EU Commissioner of Agriculture, Phil Hogan, EU Director-General for International Cooperation and Development (DEVCO), Fernando Frutuoso de Melo, and the President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz.
NaijaAgroNet reports that both parties highlighted the alignment between the EU initiatives and FAO's strategic objectives, and expressed satisfaction on the strategic partnership and high-level political dialogue taking place on common key challenges.
They reiterated that food and nutrition security will remain at the heart of their respective programming cycles.
FAO and
the EU have also stressed the joint role they will be playing within some of
the main conferences and events to take place in 2015, reports NaijaAgroNet.
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