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The UCFA is offered as a tool to inspire and inform Member States as they engage in discussions around matters related to food and nutrition security in different intergovernmental bodies.
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The CFS endorsed the ‘Voluntary Guidelines on Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security’ at the 38th Special Session on 11 May 2012.
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Rome, 12 April 2010 – A new US$26.4 million IFAD-supported project will help reduce poverty and enhance food security in three of Turkey’s most eastern provinces. The Ardhan-Kars-Artvin Development Project will endeavour to improve livestock and horticulture production and village service industries to the benefit of some 13,000 poor households in 160 villages of the Ardhan, Kars and Artvin provinces.
IFAD will provide a loan of US$19.2 million on ordinary terms to finance the project under an agreement signed by Kanayo Nwanze, President of IFAD, and Salih Ercan, Economic Counsellor of the Turkish Embassy in Rome today.
“The Project will assist the local communities improve their institutional capacities and self-reliance in achieving a sustainable agricultural growth along with increased farm competitiveness and strengthened farm-to-market linkages”, said Henning Pedersen, IFAD’s country programme Manager for Turkey. It consists of three key components, namely, smallholder and non-farm enterprise investments; village infrastructure investments; and institutional strengthening and project management,” he added. Pedersen affirmed that “the project will help increase the assets and incomes of poor women and men smallholders and of small rural entrepreneurs, who have the potential and willingness to move towards commercial agriculture and other income generating activities.”
According to the project’s design document, it will introduce best practices in cereal and forage production, improve livestock husbandry practices, rehabilitate and modernize village and rural infrastructure and provide access to technologies, know-how, processing facilities and market linkages. Improved irrigation, for example, will lead to a 20 percent increase in the yields of cherries, apricots and tomatoes.
The project will eventually help the Government’s efforts to eliminating the substantial socio-economic development disparities that continue to exist among the regions and provinces of the country. A 20 percent reduction in the number of people living on less than US$4.5 per day will be achieved by the end of the five-year project.
With this project, IFAD will have financed eight projects in Turkey for a total of commitment of USD 142.7 million.
Press release No.: IFAD/27/2010
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The spike in food prices of last year (2008) underscored what experts have been telling us for many years: the world's food systems are in crisis
