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FAO, Portuguese Language Countries Community launch Sustainable Family Farming Training Centre
19.07.2019 13:11 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
As of yesterday, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva started a three-day visit to Portugal, FAO reports.
As to the report, within the visit, the FAO Director-General spoke at the opening ceremony of the «Relevant Territories for a Sustainable World» event (within Monsanto).
As to the report, da Silva made it known FAO and the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) joined forces to boost food and nutrition security in their territories through strengthened sustainable family farming and agroecology development. Thus, in part., the both organiztions launched a US$400 000 cooperation programme which starts with the creation of a new training centre headquarted within São Tomé and Príncipe to facilitate knowledge exchange and capacity building for technicians, farmer field school instructors and family farmers, with a special focus on increasing their participation in agroecology and family farming laws.
«We will not change food systems with technology, but instead we need to make changes in laws and in research,» da Silva said.
As to him, FAO is supporting the new centre as a way of «opening a window in the Green Revolution cathedral, to plant the idea that a new and more sustainable and responsible production and consumption model is possible.»
As to him, the new training centre will also dedelop the sustainable output, processing and storage technologies, as well as training for improved access to markets of added-value products such as cassava, coffee, cocoa, cashew, fish, meat, dairy products and fruit and vegetables.
It is to be admitted, the Community of Portuguese Language Countries is composed of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe, Equatorial Guinea and Timor-Leste, with a total population of over 285 million people.
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