Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition

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Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition

Digest No. 1196

28 September 2015

Discussion 120

 

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Food Security and Nutrition in APEC Economies.
Sharing lessons learned and looking into the future

 

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Dear Members,

The discussion “Food Security and Nutrition in APEC Economies. Sharing lessons learned and looking into the future” has now come to an end and we would like to share with you the closing remarks of the facilitator, Prof. Nie Fengying in addition to the latest comments received.

This discussion aimed at exploring food security challenges faced by APEC economies, focusing both on the commonalities and differences. We also asked you how to increase the involvement of young professions in food security, whose expertise is crucial to continue our fight for a world without hunger.

Please visit the discussion website to see all comments received and to read the introductory message, which is available in English, French, Spanish and Chinese.

On the discussion page you will also find information and summaries of the APEC Food Security Training and Workshop hosted by the Chinese Academy of Agriculture Sciences in Beijing on September 7-9, 2015. 

A summary of the online discussion will be made available in the next few weeks.

We take this opportunity to thank all of your for this lively discussion and look forward to our upcoming exchanges.

Your FSN Forum team

 

 

Nie Fengying, facilitator of the discussion

Dear colleagues,

APEC food security Training and Workshop was recently conducted in Beijing from September 7 to 9, 2015. More than 60 experts and young researchers attended this training and workshop. The participants came from 12 different APEC countries like Chile, Peru, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand and Vietnam and 9 non APEC economies. As a new beginning, an online discussion has been also created jointly with FAO Food Security network forum where 59 enthusiastic people from different parts of the world contributed to online discussion about the issues related to this workshop.

This experience was also highly helpful. As the head of organizing committee, I would like to thank everybody who took part and contributed in this training workshop and also online discussions.

Today, we live in an integrated world and our learning and experiences are valuable to each other. By coming together, I believe, APEC economy has made a noble beginning of sharing experiences. I am pleased to share with you that we were successfully able to exchange with each other about different emerging issues like food value chain, market and trade, food security and nutrition, resilience and foresights. The experts’ presentations at the workshop were well appreciated and I would like to particularly thank the speakers also. The presentations are posted in this online discussion for further interactive communication as well.

The training and workshop for food security scholars in the APEC economies is the beginning only and it is a part of the large scale ongoing food security training program undertaken by our institute at CAAS. We look forward to building a scholars’ database along with discussing and putting forward scientific, reasonable and widely used method and system to measure and monitor food security policy in future. We hope our path will cross soon in future.

Thank you all.

Prof. Nie Fengying
Director International Division
Agriculture Information Institute
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Read Prof. Nie’s closing remarks online

 

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iconAimée Hampel-Milagrosa, German Development Institute, Germany

Aimée shares her experience leading a project that evaluates the impact of agricultural economic development on poverty, employment, land tenure, productivity and food security. Her research indicates that smallholder farmers benefit tremendously from being integrated into global value chains. Through the integration these farmers can acquire knowledge on standards, production techniques and technology. In order for farmers to access the value chains they need support from the government through policies that allow them to develop as entrepreneurs. In this context, Aimée calls for more high-quality food security-related research to be carried out in APEC economies. [...]

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iconKoffi Allado, Université de Lomé, Togo

Koffi suggests that smallholders form groups to improve their bargaining power and their market position. He then shares information on the situation in Togo, where the PNIASA programme has enabled the country to recommit to agriculture. Contrary to earlier programmes, PNIASA supports an active state involvement in agricultural development. [...]

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iconDosse Sossouga, Amis des Etrangers au Togo (ADET), Togo

Dosse sees the growing uncertainty about the future of agriculture caused by climate change as a disincentive for youth to become farmers. He identifies an important role for agricultural engineers to provide the necessary information to smallholders on how to adapt to such a changing farming environment. [...]

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iconYingya Yu, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

Yingya sees a continuous effort by universities and research institutes as necessary to increase the interest of youth in food security. [...]

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iconComfort Mare, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe

Comfort argues that it is important to foster the interest of youth in agriculture from an early age. In Zimbabwe, for instance, agriculture has been added as a compulsory subject in primary schools. [...]

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