DOHA Government, non-governmental and private enterprise leaders are scheduled to gather in Doha later this month an ecologically sustainable food safety action plan among other hammer.
The heir to the His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani will inaugurate the two-day International Conference on food security in arid areas (FSDL) to the Ibn Khaldoun Conference Centre of Qatar University on 14 November, said Qatar National Food Security Programme (QNSFP) in a statement on Thursday.
Among the dignitaries attending the Conference would be United Nations Secretary-General Ban Kimoon, Prince Sultan bin Mohammed bin Saud al Kabeer of Saudi Arabia, Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandeel and US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, it added.
The Conference will bring together ministers, senior officials, policy makers, researchers, experts, development practitioners and representatives of international and regional organisations, farmers, trade unions, NGOs, public and private financial institutions and funds, private agribusiness firms and the media to discuss issues relating to growth of agriculture, particularly in the Arab world and the Middle East.
The Conference will be concluded with the adoption of the Doha Declaration, which is clearly a target rate and date for the allocation of a significant part of the national government expenditures for programs and projects for food security on an ecologically, economically and socially sustainable basis.
The share of 10 per cent is proposed as a target to be achieved by 2022. The outcome document will also be the main lines of an action plan on the basis of a consensus between the participants present.
The topics to be discussed at the Conference are causes and consequences of food insecurity in the Middle East, the economic advantages and disadvantages of domestic agriculture in the area, Lebanese food security challenges, the potential impact of marine activities on the marine ecosystem, Arab countries current and planned investments in agricultural soils, food security in Yemen and the Arab countries projected land and water investment needs in 2030.
The Conference will also discuss food security in Egypt, using salt water resources in agriculture, importance of estuarine ecosystems saltwater-tolerant mangroves for the production of food, agricultural productivity in hyper-saline ecosystems, wheat imports in Arab countries, grain reserves and trade logistics and making food energy-water nexus through advanced technologies.
The deliberations of the Conference will focus on three thematic areas, namely food security, water supply and resources management and responsible investments.
In the first segment, the participants will discuss challenges before reaching self-sufficiency in food production in arid countries and suggestions to overcome them.
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