Stakeholders
amongst experts in the Global Water Partnership recently held a meeting on the
National Consultation on Food security and water in sub Saharan Africa, where
they advocated and urged for the fast development of policies on food and water
security.
The meeting
organized by Global Water Partnership (GWP), urged Nigerian government and
African leaders to take seriously the urgent development national policy that
would guarantee food and water security in the country just as the stakeholders
also wanted an elaborate agriculture development plan geared toward ending food
insecurity and poverty.
During the
meeting the permanent secretary federal ministry of water resources,
Musa Istifanus said the international communities have encouraged African
countries to develop National policies that could guarantee food and water
security in the continent.
He added that In an
attempt to set up a sustainable development goals that would be put in place at
the expiration of millennium development goals on water, the high level panel
of experts in the water sector on the platform GWP had met in Abuja to exchange
views on the nexus between food and water security being part of the provided
SDG.
Mr Istifanus said the final draft version of the report by
these experts on food security and water has provided opportunity for concerned
countries and government to discuss pertinent issues bordering on water and
food security for dynamic innovation for optimizing linkages among the
countries.
Dr Hassan Bdliya the chairman, GWP, Nigeria, in his remark
said that global water partnership is an international network created in 1996
to foster the implementation of integrated water resources management and sustainable
development agricultural development through deplorable irrigation waters for
farmers producing crops food.
The goal of GWP is to increase water security at all levels
by balancing the needs of the society with available water resources. The
network includes government institution (national, regional and local) inter
governmental organization, research institutions, private sectors, and service
providers at the public sector.
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