Participants at a webinar stressed importance of effective collaboration, innovation as well as intersectoral action as essential approaches to the progressive realization of the right to food.
They also laid due importance on adequate and stable supply of safe food to all people, while it is also essential to educate people about locally available and low-cost nutritious food.
Experts made the reflecting in the webinar, “Consultation with CSOs and media for Thirty-sixth Session of FAO Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific”, hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), as part of it's series of webinars.
The webinars were organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) , drawing on the FAO’s upcoming 36th Asia Pacific Regional Conference to be held in Dhaka from 8-11 March. Bangladesh will host the 36th FAO Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific (APRC) in 2022 – the first time that the country has been given the honor since it joined the FAO in 1973.
The Country Director of GAIN Dr Rudaba Khondker has highlighted the importance of nutrition and the critical work of the ‘Scaling Up Nutrition’ (SUN) Movement to address malnutrition and hunger across the globe including Bangladesh.
Along with high level officials, experts and practitioners in agri-food and other cross-cutting sectors, namely climate and environment, women, and child affairs etc. around 90 participants from developments partners, INGO, national NGOs, grassroots level NGOs namely, IFRI, CIMMT, CARE, SAVE, CONCERN Worldwide, ACDI/VOCAand media representatives from national print, online and broadcasting media attended the workshop.
Participants in the discussion also highlighted on ease the access of farmers to different financial schemes like flood insurance scheme, with focus on farmers from flood-prone and heard-to-reach communities.
During the webinar’s opening ceremony, FAO’s Assistant Representative in Bangladesh Dr. Nur Ahammed Khondaker commented, “the workshop opens a new opportunity of cooperation between development partners, actors and FAO as we work to overcome the difficulties to transiting a sustainable and healthy agri-food system”.
