Social protection schemes offer a faster track to ending hunger and can help gradually improve the livelihood of the world’s poor, according to a new report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
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Lying behind that state of affairs, the report argues, is the African rural poor’s continuing reliance on agriculture for their livelihoods and the high share of their expenditure that goes on food.
The agriculture official said due to the increase in the number of small farms and backyard gardening in recent years, the country was able to avoid a food crisis this past year caused by drought and warm temperatures.
The meeting was officially opened by Berhe Tekola, director of the FAO animal production & health division and Mario Sergio Cutait, IFIF chairman, who reiterated their commitment to this longstanding partnership and agreed to continue to strengthen their work together to tackle the challenges facing the feed and food chain.
However, only 38% of the world’s population receives social protection, and even less come from rural areas where most of the hungry and poor are located.
“When shocks occur, [rural farmers] are often forced to cope in ways that increase their vulnerability or undermine their future income generation capacity”.
Still, the report emphasized how social protection alone can not sustainably eradicate hunger and rural poverty.
The agency estimates only about one in three of the world’s poorest people are covered by any form of social protection.
Pro-poor public investments include infrastructure benefitting smallholder family farmers, ensuring sustainable agriculture, reducing post-harvest food losses, strengthening land and water rights, and making sure that the poor and marginalized-whose ranks include many women and youth-have fair access to credit, farm inputs including seed and fertilizers, and the extension services that provide training and advice to rural smallholders.
European agricultural cooperative Copa-Cogeca and Flemish Green party MEP Bart Staes. “Economic growth, especially in agriculture, has been essential in driving down rates of hunger and poverty”. WFD is celebrated each year on 16 October, the day on which the United Nations was founded in 1945.
Mr Ban said it was in local communities where real progress was made. Furthermore, social protection programmes prevented about 150 million people worldwide from falling into extreme poverty in 2013.
Taroudant – almost five percent people still live on less than $1.25 a day in Morocco, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said.
The report argues strongly that measures to give the rural poor great financial assistance do not reduce work effort or foster a dependency culture.
The United Nations is promoting a lofty goal this World Food Day: the elimination of global hunger by 2030. MNFS&R Minister Bosan said the government was committed to eradicating poverty and enhance food security at all levels.
He said the agricultural economy was an integral part of the general economy and there was the need to pay particular attention to farmers at the rural communities and make agriculture more market-oriented.
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The FAO chief said good nutrition spurs economic growth, peace and stability.
