China News Service, Beijing, September 3 (Liu Liang) The online conference of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (hereinafter referred to as FAO) Asia-Pacific Regional Conference has entered the second day.
In the previous two days of the meeting, all parties listened to and understood the voices of small island developing States, least developed countries and landlocked developing countries, and committed themselves to helping these vulnerable countries cope with food security from the epidemic and climate change. Shock.
Tokelau, a Non-Self-Governing Territory of New Zealand, is an associate member of FAO.
His delegation stated that the country’s only 1,400 nationals have not yet confirmed cases, but the domestic food security situation is worrying.
Tuvalu is another small Pacific island country.
The country is trying to reduce the impact of the interruption of international trade through internal measures: "Food import supplies are in trouble. In the face of unprecedented epidemics, we encourage people to actively develop agriculture and fishery production."
The impact of climate change has also attracted much attention.
The Samoan delegation asked the international community to extend a helping hand to help strengthen the resilience of its domestic agricultural food system.
"We look forward to FAO's assistance to Samoa, especially in combating the negative effects of climate change, ensuring that we can manage agricultural and fishery resources, and further strengthen and improve climate resilience and risk mitigation measures."
The Papua New Guinea delegation also emphasized the two themes of climate change and African swine fever.
The delegation pointed out that “In terms of climate change, Papua New Guinea is willing to support any initiative to develop or promote practical technologies for climate-smart agriculture among Asia-Pacific countries, including South-South cooperation and the integration of women into agricultural processes.” The new delegation also pointed out that cross-border biosecurity is critical to curbing the spread of African swine fever and Spodoptera frugiperda.
Soon after FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu took office in August 2019, small island developing States, least developed countries and landlocked developing countries were recognized as the top priority of the organization’s work to promote global reduction. Hunger, increase agricultural potential.
In response, FAO member countries approved the Director-General’s proposal to establish a special office, which is responsible for promoting cross-sectoral coordination and strengthening development actions to address the challenges faced by small island developing States, least developed countries and landlocked developing countries.
Small island developing States, least developed countries and landlocked developing countries have also become priority countries in the response and recovery plan recently launched by FAO, which aims to reduce the direct impact of the epidemic while strengthening the long-term resilience of food systems and livelihoods.
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