Poverty, Food Security Discussion Underway

from All Africa

The NEWS (Monrovia)

The Ministry of Agriculture in collaboration with its development partners will conduct a two-day strategy workshop from May 8-9, 2008 at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex in Paynesville, near Monrovia, an Agriculture release disclosed.

According to the release, the workshop is expected to bring together major actors in the agricultural field, food security and natural resources management sectors.

Participants will share ideas on the current global food crisis, challenges and lessons learnt and will adopt a new plan of action to cope with the prevailing food security situation in Liberia.

Organizers hinted that discussions at the workshop will ensure that organizations and partners involved are familiar with the poverty Reduction Strategy and Draft National Food and Agriculture Policy.

The release also said discussions at the workshop will evoke strategies that would strengthen the Ministry of Agriculture's capacity to monitor and evaluate agriculture related activities being implemented by key stakeholders in the sector.

The pending discussions will draw participants from local and international non-Governmental Organizations, the private sector and UN agencies as well as research institutions, among others.

The workshop comes at a time when the government, through the Ministry of Agriculture, is designing plans to ease the problems of food insecurity by engaging and signing agreements with relevant agricultural institutions.