Rome, Italy and Washington, DC
March 14, 2007
The
UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the
United States Department of
Agriculture (USDA) today signed an agreement to enhance
their cooperation to promote and support the development of a
viable, sustainable global agriculture system.
Under the terms of the framework agreement, USDA funds and
resources, including human resources, can be mobilized to
support FAO projects promoting sustainable agricultural
development and the attainment of the Millennium Development
Goals in developing countries.
USDA grants could finance FAO activities emphasizing poverty
eradication through economic growth and permanent improvement of
the economic and social conditions of the rural poor in
developing countries. Particular effort will be made to mobilize
local human and other resources within the beneficiary countries
and to ensure that development assistance is based on a dialogue
with the partner countries and is in accordance with the
countries’ own priorities and national poverty reduction
strategies.
“Lasting solutions to hunger and poverty require effective
collaboration among all development partners, as well as
capacity-building and institutional development in recipient
countries,” said John Ziolkowski, Director of FAO’s Liaison
Office for North America. “Only by working together in promoting
sustainable development and targeting the needs of the poor and
hungry can we hope to meet the Millennium Development and World
Food Summit Goals.”
The agreement was signed by FAO Director-General Dr Jacques
Diouf and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns.
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