The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) |
This guarantee was
given last Wednesday by FAO representative in Angola, Mamoudu Diallo, in
Lubango City, southern Huila Province, when delivering a speech at the
opening ceremony of a technical seminar on Food Security, promoted by
the Agriculture Ministry with the backing of the FAO.
"We are following
all the efforts being made by the Angolan Executive to mitigate the
consequences of climate changes, by supporting the population at the
level of food and nutritional security, through projects in the areas of
agriculture, health and nutrition", he said.
He also defended
the need for the authorities to take steps ahead of events and avoid
emergency measures, invest in structural programmes, chiefly in
drought-hit zones.
These structural
programmes, he explained, aim at changing the current situation in a
sustainable way, by transforming the drought-hit areas into arable
lands.
The one-day seminar
had the objective to promote discussions about the impact of natural
calamities in the country and find mechanisms for the viability of
co-ordinated and multi-sectoral interventions, with a view to improving
food security and mitigate the negative effects of climatic phenomena.
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