Africa-Press – Angola. The IFAD fundraising session, co-organized by France and Angola, concluded in Paris with a sum of one billion dollars and more announcements to be made before the board of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, next February .
Second the final communiqué of the meeting, there is also a outstanding commitment of more than 1.070 billion euros to be delivered by Member States, donors and public-private partners, until February 2024.
Until to date, adds the same document, “an amount has already been reached significant amount of one billion dollars”, whose 13th session, also called IFAD13, aimed to mobilize necessary funds for this United Nations agency continue to finance food security, through support for communities rural areas, responsible for ensuring the production of a third of the food in the world.
A Friday’s ceremony was attended by representatives from 48 Member States and donor institutions, including the private sector. A Angolan delegation was led by the Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Carmen do Sacramento Neto, and integrated by the Secretary of State for Agriculture and Forestry, João Bartolomeu da Cunha, by ambassadors Fátima Jardim, representative of Angola at the United Nations agencies, in Rome, and Guilhermina Prata (France), in addition to senior technicians.
To the present the final declaration of the event, the president of IFAD, Alvaro Lario, thanked the Member States, in particular France and Angola, co-organizers of the activity, for their “incredible support”, noting that by welcoming the fourth fundraising session in the last two days, in Paris, Angola and France lead the call for an ambitious replenishment of Angola’s resources institution.
Underlined that this dynamic will help the fund to double its impact and improve significantly the lives of 100 million rural people. “We have reached a critical moment in history. The increase in global temperature and shocks climate-related effects are having unprecedented and possibly irreversible effects on agricultural systems, undermining food security and nutrition around the world.”
Alvaro Lario added that, to mitigate the situation, “IFAD managed to mobilize more funds through private loans and linking to capital markets global capitals, being the first specialized UN agency to do so”.
Second the president of the organization, “without greater investment in rural communities, there is no hope of ending global hunger and poverty by 2030.” That’s why, reinforced, IFAD urges more investments to transform the systems food, so that they provide adequate, affordable and nutritious food for everyone, without compromising ecosystems and the planet.
O IFAD’s impact, according to Alvaro Lario, is measurable and indisputable. Same In this technology-dominated era, most of the world’s population depends on from the Food sector to subsistence. “With adequate financing to enable rural communities to adapt to global challenges without precedents we face today, may not only continue to feed themselves themselves and nations, as well as strengthening global food security, in general”, highlighted the person in charge.
Before following the release of the final communiqué, representatives from several countries intervened in support of much-needed fundraising for the continuity of programs, reducing hunger and poverty in the world and in the future global food security.
O IFAD, International Fund for Agricultural Development, is a UN agency based in Rome. It was established in 1977 in response to famine in the Sahel, discussed at the World Food Conference in 1974. Its mission is to help poor rural populations in developing countries to overcome poverty.
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