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Written by Cherelle Jackson
Thursday, 24 April 2008
Dr. Vili Fuavao says the food security approach focuses on grassroots rather than endless documentations. The death of endless documentation The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations made a big call in their most recent food security programme, they disregarded the documentation approach. The Regional Programme for Food Security in the Pacific Island Countries (RPFS) began in May 2004 as a result of the outcomes of the World Food Summit in Rome back in November 1996 where world leaders committed their nations to eliminating the scourge of hunger and undernourishment globally. This week, coordinators of RPFS from more than ten countries gathered at the FAO headquarters to review the programme which ends this year. The programme itself is supported by FAO through a Trust Fund for Food Security and Food Safety (TFFS) in collaboration also with the Government of Italy who donated a total of US$100 million mainly for the FAO Special Programme for Food Security (SPFS). In an interview with Dr. Vili Fuavao, Representative of the FAO Sub-regional headquarters in Samoa, he said the project signified the success of a community based approach by FAO. “The main benefit of the project is we concentrate on production, if you take the case of Samoa we have concentrated on seed production and chicken permaculture, we wanted to do something concrete, move away from producing document after document, we wanted something that also benefits the community,” he told Newsline. Fuavao said the approach is refreshing as it encompasses the National Strategies of the respective countries. “Obviously what we do here not the same as we see in Fiji or any other Pacific country,” he said. The projects under RPFS that involved Samoa include Sheep Integration Farming, Chicken Production in a Permaculture Farming System and Value Adding of Samoa Grown Food crops. Challenges In an FAO report on challenges in agriculture produced this year, sustainability and marketability of agricultural products were identified as major issues. Accroding to FAO the most challenging food security issues for Samoa towards 2010 are sustaining domestic food production levels in line with food demands and market potentials, increasing the productivity and returns to subsistence and commercial agriculture. It identifies the rising volume and prices of poor quality and nutritionally inferior food imports, and increasingly, the existence of environmental degradation associated with poor land management practices as further contributing issues. According to FAO these resource management issues involve many Government agencies, private companies and communities, and could be addressed by implementing an integrated approach to land and natural resource management, as advocated by the National Environment Management Strategy (1994). On a regional perspective, Maria Pia Rizzo Desk Officer for the Pacific under SPFS in Italy, the challenge lies more in the partnerships of the Pacific rather than individual countries. “The challenges in the Pacific is trying to build a regional awareness and trying to benefit of course of the added value that each country can make to other countries and to stick on the regional dimension, of course due to the diversity and vulnerability of each country this can be a big threat,” PioRizzo said. A strategy recommended by FAO under the project to strengthen Samoa agricultural sector include the encouragement of research and development effort to raise productivity of food crops and livestock and of value adding technologies to boost production for local consumption and for export. The meeting at FAO ended yesterday, Dr Fuavao told Newsline that the continuation of the project looks hopeful. Comments (0) Subscribe to this comment's feed Write comment Name Email Title Comment

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