World Food Day: UAE, FAO join hands to fight hunger in Zimbabwe
UAE also renews Credit Fund for Sub-Regional Coordinator for GCC and Yemen
On this year’s World Food Day (yesterday), the UAE strengthened its partnership with the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) through two agreements aimed at helping cut hunger and poverty in Zimbabwe and supporting food security in GCC and Yemen.
The first agreement was signed for the ‘Hand-in-Hand Zimbabwe — Smallholder Horticulture Recovery and Inclusion Project [SHRIP]’ and the second involved renewing the Credit Fund for the Sub-Regional Coordinator for the GCC and Yemen.
The agreements form part of the UAE’s efforts to promote world food security, strengthen food systems, and contribute to eliminating hunger worldwide.
The two agreements were signed in the presence of Mariam Almheiri, Minister of Climate Change and Environment, with their terms aiming to strengthen the collaboration between the UAE and FAO by facilitating bilateral involvement in projects dedicated towards ensuring the availability of sustainable food in areas affected by poverty, globally.
As per the first agreement, the UAE will financially support the project in Zimbabwe to reduce hunger and poverty among smallholder farmers by engaging them in the markets. The FAO will implement the project and the UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment will oversee and ensure the project’s implementation in line with the UAE’s development goals.
AbdulHakim Elwaer, FAO’s Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for the Near East and North Africa, said: “We are committed to strengthening our collaboration with the UAE and other countries in the region to develop effective solutions for food challenges.”
The UAE will financially support the project in Zimbabwe to reduce hunger and poverty among smallholder farmers by engaging them in the markets.