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Kuwait supports efforts to reduce hunger in Syria
FAO welcomes Kuwait’s contribution of $3 million to help Syrian farmers and herders recover 7 August 2019, Cairo/Rome - Kuwait and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
have strengthened their partnership to help Syrian farmers and herders recover and boost their food security and nutrition - all thanks to a $3 million contribution from Kuwait to benefit some 20,000 highly vulnerable people and their extended families.
"The Government of Kuwait is committed to supporting people in need of humanitarian assistance. It is important to restore and strengthen the agricultural livelihood and food security of Syrian
people," said Jamal Al-Ghunaim, Permanent Representative of the State of Kuwait to the United Nations in Geneva.
"We welcome this reinforced collaboration between Kuwait and FAO," said FAO's Abdessalam Ould Ahmed, Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for the Near East and North Africa
(NENA). "This generous contribution will go a long way and it is most timely. It will help FAO step up its efforts to support food-insecure Syrian communities and roll out activities aimed at making farming communities more resilient whilst improving their
food security and nutrition," he added. More broadly, Kuwait and FAO are increasingly working together to fight hunger and malnutrition, and come to the aid of disaster-stricken communities in the NENA region and beyond, in countries
such as Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria. Helping Syrian farmers to cope with hunger and recover The contribution from Kuwait will go towards helping some 20,000 vulnerable farmers and herders, especially women-headed households, and their extended families with vegetable seeds, irrigation
kits and feed for their animals, as well support to rehabilitate their fodder crop nurseries and training on best agricultural practices.
FAO will carry out these activities in Syria's Daraa, As-Sweida, Deir-Ez-Zor and Hama governorates. "We aim to build the production capacity of the most affected farming families in rural areas by providing agricultural inputs and intensive technical trainings," said Mike Robson, FAO Representative
in Syria. "Our partnership with Kuwait reflects our shared aspiration to strengthen the resilience and better the lives of Syria's most vulnerable," added Robson. The protracted crisis in Syria coupled with the most severe drought in decades has severely weakened Syria's agricultural production. This has led to more than 6 million people facing hunger
and increasingly struggling to feed their families, and high food prices. To address this, FAO is working with partners to:
FAO is also playing a lead role in strengthening coordination of all partners working to improve food security in Syria. |
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