J0URNEE WORLD FOOD 201O 30th World Food Day
October 16, 2010
Topic: UNITED AGAINST HUNGER "
From 15 to 16 October 2010, Ziguinchor Region / Senegal
Department of Agriculture / Republic of Senegal
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United Nations Food and Agriculture (FAO)
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Framework Institutional World Food Day, 2010 edition As part of World Food Day (WFD), 201O edition with the theme "United against Hunger", the Region of Ziguinchor was honored to host the ceremonies commemorating the 15 to 16 October 2010.
The Governor of the Region of Ziguinchor called a CRD (Regional Committee Development) October 30, 2010. A delegation consisting of some members of the Steering Committee represented the National Organizing Committee (NOC / JMA).
After this CRD, the Governor has made the establishment of the Regional Organization (CRO / JMA 2010) through sub-committees:
- Finance Sub Committees comprising ANRAC, CARITAS, Chamber of Commerce Industry and Agriculture, WFP, UNICEF, Regional Council, PROC, PADERCA, etc. CNCAS.
- Commissions Organization and Logistics: DRDR, CSA, RCRC, Union "Japandoo, Trade, Water Youth Drills and so on.
- Scientific Committee: ISRA University, WAUA, Statistics, Planning, Caritas Congad, EATA.
- Commission Communication: Association for Professionals in Information and Communication, all the media at the regional level.
- Commissions culinary competition: Community Development, Regional Coordination Advisory Committee of Women, Kagame, GFC, etc. Usoforal.
-VISIT SITES Agnack • Breakfast, located 20 km from Ziguinchor is a plot of 3 ha of rice belonging to a group of 8 producers. Cultivar: SAHEL 108
• Barage of Guidel antisel structure, built between 1980 and 1982, covers 1750 hectares, of which 1150 are land salty. This dam is very advanced state of disrepair
• Boucotte Valley, rice mills operated by renforme populations Boutoute and Ziguinchor. Cultivar: SAHEL 108
• Unit processing mangoes in vinegar. GIE WARE PRODUCTION memberof USOFORAL, handles the processing of mangoes in vinegar, with the support of the technical center food ITA. Seated including production: 23,000 liters per year to 4 tonnes of mango production. • EIG
JIRIBALUT, processing unit Grains formed by local NGOs and 10 members KAGAMENE
WFD Program, 2010 edition / Ziguinchor Activity I:
Scientific Conference on the theme "Delivering against hunger: eat what we produce, "Friday, October 15, 2010 Regional Cultural Center of Ziguinchor.
Chaired by the Deputy Governor of Ziguinchor, in charge of development, we recorded the following presentations:
- Project Coordinator of Support to Rural Development in Casamance (PADERCA) ;
- Deputy Secretary General National Union of Farmers, Breeders and Fishermen (SYNAEP-JAPANDOO) for Food and Abundance;
- The Coordinator of the National Agency for the recovery of economic and social activities in Casamance (ANRAC )
- Representative of the Institute of Food Technology, Dakar / Senegal;
- slide presentation of the FAO "1 billion people suffer from chronic hunger."
Activity II:
Culinary Competition for Women's Advancement Groups (GPF), Friday, October 15, 2010 in Ziguinchor CRETEF 15H to 21H.
Activity III:
Home of the official delegation, Site visits and exhibition of agricultural products and the official ceremony itself at Place Sitoe Diatta Ziguinchor, Saturday, 16 October 201O.
My commentary and personal observation as a Member of the Scientific Sub-Committee / National Organizing Committee (NOC) / World Food Day (WFD, 2010) Social Infrastructure economic, financial and nonfinancial in the development of production and competitiveness agriculture sector, especially in countries south of Sahara, since the SAP, through the MDGs and PRSPs, have almost tripled in absolute poverty and income poverty, particularly among young African generations (graduates, excluded from school and of vocational and technical training etc ....).
Public Policy (Public Private Partnerships with POs, CSOs and CBOs rural GPF rural cooperatives and mutuals) record delays legal, organizational, operational, financial and nonfinancial, and especially the search for effective and efficient communities basis. The external and internal factors (grants Northern countries, multitudes of agro-silvopastoral laws etc..) are mandatory to foster sustained growth and self-sufficiency for the family farm, FDI agricultural Governance land security, agriculture and industrial production-the scenarios, the analytical data H / F, Local Development Plans (NPLD), training and capacity building. Climate Change are trying to install millions of people in articles of "climate refugees" where even the work of the 2000 members of the GEC / UN are challenged by the main beneficiaries (CSOs, CBOs, POs etc..). The Integrated Approach CCAP (Control Citizen Action Service) and sustainable human rights are not always respected where the shocks recorded in the implementation.
The United Nations Conference on Biodiversity in Nagoya, Japan, Monday October 18 to 29, 2010, has registered nearly 18,000 participants from 193 countries signed the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) were left with a series "historic decisions that will allow states to meet the chalenges unprecedented loss of biodiversity continues," said the secretariat of the CBD. The two main objectives before the conference were achieved: the adoption of a protocol on access to resources and benefit sharing (ABS) derived from the use of genetic resources and the establishment of a Strategic Plan for the conservation of biodiversity 2020. However, at present the funding strategy for the protection of biodiversity is mainly based on public funding and volunteers on a "greening" of official development assistance. It is essential to find a compromise with the United States that have not ratified the CBD. They are not constrained by the texts adopted at the conference in Nagoya.
The consent of States as a prerequisite for resource The main result obtained in Nagoya is the signature of the protocol APA negotiated for eight years. This agreement should allow access to genetic resources from biodiversity to industry, while promoting a sharing of profits with the countries where resources are derived concerned. Specifically companies must file a formal application and prior to the country concerned and the consent of the country will then be registered with an agency ad hoc. National agencies will be responsible for monitoring compliance with agreements signed. A specific mechanism is responsible for the management of two special cases: the resources coming from border areas and situations where it is not possible to obtain consent.
20 objectives for 2020 In addition, a Strategic Plan for 2020 is constructed from 20 objectives of preserving biodiversity organized around five strategic themes. These objectives will serve primarily to guide national and international efforts to protect biodiversity and not binding. The strategic themes selected are the underlying causes of biodiversity loss, reducing pressures on biodiversity, the introduction of safeguard clauses, the enhancement of benefits provided by biodiversity and the capacity of operators.
One of the main objectives of the Plan is "to at least halve or even bring it as close to zero, where possible, the rate of loss of natural habitats including forest." In addition, the Plan aims to create protected areas on 17% of land surface and 10% of marine and coastal areas. Currently, protected areas represent approximately 13% of the land and 1% of the sea surface. Similarly, governments are invited to eat at least 15% of degraded areas. With regard to coral reefs, the agreement adopted in Nagoya indicates that "special efforts are made to reduce the pressure to which [they] face."
This shows the confrontation between 02 logic: the logic of economics and financial and environmental logic. Biodiversity is also the genetic logic. And for the food security problems, there are the scientists and technical visions but we also need sustainable consumption and production patterns with politics, North and South.
the occasion of the publication, October 26, by his second report on the status of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Food and Agriculture ( FAO) has developed an alarming:''the genetic diversity of crops we grow and eat - and wild relatives - could disappear forever, thus compromising future food security.''
Given this fact without appeal, FAO offers solutions''light''as action for the environment. The association, which welcomes the recognition the importance of diversity cultivated by FAO, regrets that it''does not dare go to the necessary examination of conscience, and do ignore the political and economic causes of the current loss of crop biodiversity .'' On reading the report, the reader is indeed hungry. This text is''probably the result of a compromise between the different currents of FAO. The timidity of this institution is also due to a finding that challenges forty years of UN policy. The green revolution advocated by FAO arose from a choice of high-yield seeds that led to standardize global agricultural practices'', Jacques Caplat analysis, project manager for Action for the Environment. These
relevant comments from my friends global civil society deserve viscerally comprehensible to exit "1 billion people suffering from chronic hunger worldwide," These institutional reluctance noted that FAO is also valid for the countries in sub-Saharan Africa through their regional agricultural policies and sub-regional (CAP / ECOWAS PAC / UEMOA, EPA / European Union, African Union, NEPAD, biotechnology / biosafety AGRICULTURAL etc..). In addition to our position as an Expert, Member of the African Civil Society and Research independent, beyond the institutional research, we are not consulted enough on TQ PRR (Techniques Quantitative Research Potential Actual) to solve Africa's food security. The TQ PRR skills are very rare in Africa that require cross-evaluation experiments NTPE CDM (New Technologies Clean Environment - Clean Development Mechanism / See: Project NTPE Australia / IDB Group / Code BN) in Econometrics agriculture and forestry and rural finance. The issue of quality of governance arises at all levels of agricultural information, the initial and ongoing training and supervision of cooperatives and mutuals in the agriculture sector. In the U.S., we have the example of CCC who accompanies and institutionally agribusiness and Farmer in the Sustainable Agriculture and the SCM / WTO.
It is important to stress the particular context in which the conflict zone JMA, 2010 edition has just taken place in the Region of Ziguinchor. The Godfather of the day, the Agency ANRAC is created in a particular context as an Agreement between the Government of Senegal and the MFDC.
Member of Civil Society Financial Development, the concept of development is considered as a series of transformations more or less linear progressing, thanks to developments NTPE, patterns of unsustainable production to other more sophisticated forms viable. The horrors of everyday life to a more comfortable life, the concept of development is a relatively new concept, since it did not exist in the Middle Ages. It is also, in addition, a concept very "western" influenced by the modern industrialization process.
Casamance Region recorded a plurality of projects and / or development programs, the Support Project for Rural Development in Casamance (PADERCA since 2005/2006) and the Program of Support to the Diversification of Agricultural Activities in Casamance (PADAC). The PADAC Program, in partnership with English cooperation, including the Regional Development Agency (ARD) of Ziguinchor has launched the TOR for the study of complementary initiatives to be implemented in sectors with high potential in April 2010. But the problems of Human Resources (HR) will arise because the real experts in the National Organizing Committee of World Food Day / Ziguinchor are certainly not closer to mainstream principles of sustainability projects and programs for sustainable peace and food security in the Casamance region.
Babacar Ndiaye
Consultant Sustainable development and sustained economic growth (DD / CES)
Independent researcher
Member Subcommittee SC / NOC (National Organizing Committee) / World Food Day (World Day Food)
World Civil Society's Expert Cellular Phone: +221 77 539 47 35 E-mail
: curricula_milenara@yahoo.fr
Address: PO Box 37171 Dakar / SENEGAL
