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 Posted - 18 Dec 2007 : 21:37:39
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FOOD CRISIS MONITORING AND PREVENTION TRAINING ON THE WAY
By Amie Sanneh
The permanent Secretary Department of State for Fisheries and Water Resources, Lamin Nyabally, has said that preventing food crisis cannot be done effectively without adequate and accurate data or information. He said food security is a niche in which people do not lie in hunger of fear of starvation. He added that food security exists when all people have sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.Mr. Nyabally was speaking at the opening of a weeklong sensitisation-training workshop on food crisis monitoring and prevention in The Gambia from 10 to 14 December 2007 at the Paradise Suites Hotel.
The PS for Water Resources further remarked that food security is synonymous to national security.He noted that studies conducted under the ‘Medium Term Plan for Development in the context of Vision 2020’ in 2005 indicates that 47 percent of the population lie below the poverty line and 30 percent below food poverty line. This statistics, he said, is of great concern to government and all hands must be on deck in addressing them.
‘Since the attainment of food self-sufficiency and food security in the sub region, including The Gambia, is a sine qua non for sustainable development, the need for timely, effective and accurate warning and food crisis management systems cannot be over-emphasized”, said the P.S. Mr. Nyabally posited that in a region where food production and the majority of livelihoods depend on rainfall, the need for the monitoring of their food production base is necessary.
Speaking earlier, the Deputy Permanent Secretary for Agriculture and Permanent Secretary for CCONACILSS said the training will enhance the creation of a network in the region to better coordinate joint efforts and actions to prevent food crisis in the region.
He said that at the end of the programme participants are expected to continue training themselves further with instruments that are going to be given to them.
Amie Jarra chaired the programme.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issues
Issue No. 148, 17 – 18 December 2007
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