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IANS | 20 Mar, 2019
The world needs to harness the power of exchanges between countries in
the Global South if it is to reduce poverty and malnutrition while
rising to the challenges posed by population growth and climate change,
the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development said on
Wednesday.
"South-South and Triangular Cooperation has an
important role to play in delivering and accelerating rural solutions to
improve food and nutrition security -- not least because many countries
of the Global South share similar climatic, environmental and economic
features with each other.
"As a result, rural innovations and
technologies developed in the South can be adapted to other countries of
the South much more easily and appropriately than those designed in the
North, for the North," IFAD Vice-President Cornelia Richter said in her
address to delegates at the Second High-level UN Conference on
South-South Cooperation here.
Forty years after the Buenos Aires
Plan of Action in 1978, world leaders convened again in Argentina's
capital this week to discuss how to shape a sustainable future by
sharing knowledge, technology and expertise, enhancing trade and
investments, and learning from each other's experience.
The
steady rise of the Global South in recent decades in terms of population
size, economic outputs and political weight, has triggered a
proportionate increase in the importance of SSTC. But at the same time,
the challenges have also increased.
Today, nearly 821 million people are chronically undernourished; mainly in the developing countries, according to the UN.
"The
enormous potential for SSTC in agriculture, food production and rural
development must be exploited to a much greater extent than it is today
so that the world, in particular developing countries, can adequately
meet the challenges of the future," Richter said.
IFAD has a
special role to play by embedding cross-country technological and
knowledge exchange into its projects and programmes, but developing
countries can also co-finance initiatives in other developing countrie,
she argued.
"We are identifying such opportunities to apply SSTC more systematically," she said.
While
SSTC primarily entailed sharing technical expertise, knowledge and
skills about issues such as livestock, health, food processing and
efficient water use, technical cooperation also includes dialogue on
regional policy coordination and other government actions that are
crucial to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, according to
IFAD.
IFAD said it promotes SSTC as a key mechanism for
delivering relevant, targeted and cost-effective development solutions
and other resources to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers
and poor rural people.
During the conference, the UN's Rome-based
Food and Agriculture Organization, IFAD and the World Food Programme
hosted a series of events to promote dialogue and to identify action to
pave the way for a food-secure future.
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