The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO)
Director-General, Jose Graziano da Silva has reiterated that family farmers are
crucial allies in the fight against hunger and rural poverty through feeding
the community and taking care of the earth, reports NaijaAgroNet.
The
Director-General speaking at the launch of a new digital platform that aims to
become a "one-stop shop" for information, data and legislation on the
sector that produces some 80 per cent of the world's food, NaijaAgroNet gathered,
recognized the contributions of family farmers to food security and poverty
eradication worldwide.
The new digitized platform would
gather information on family farming from all over the world, cutting across
public programs, national and regional legislation and academic researches,
thus creating an enabling environment for governments to build stronger
policies in support of family farmers and farmers’ organisations.
Reiterating
this stand, Chief of the Advocacy Unit in FAO's Office for Partnerships, Advocacy
and Capacity Development, Francesco Pierri, noted that there was a need to share
knowledge on family farming on the different kinds of policies that governments
have implemented and the numerous activities of family farmers and their organizations
in the field.
“There is
a lot of information available on the web, but it's scattered -- we wanted one
single access point for all the information out there, for anybody working in
this field to use," he said.
The
platform NaijaAgroNet learnt, would benefit diverse
international entities including governments, family farmers' networks, United Nation
agencies, Non Gonvernmental Organisations and research organizations.
FAO
maintained that with governments partnership, through the provision of large
portion contents for the platform’s legal database that allows users to browse
through a catalogue of family related policies and programmes per country, the UN
agency aims at a second phase initiative to also host online policy dialogues
after successfully establishing the platform.
Daniel
Nsolibe/GEE
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