المنتدى العالمي المعني بالأمن الغذائي والتغذية

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الدكتور Malika Bounfour

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الدولة: المغرب
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I am working on:

Actuellement, je travaille sur l'Olivier au Maroc, arbre mythique de la région et jouant un rôle important dans le budget familial des paysans, surtout en zone montagneuse.

I work on olive and olive oil production in Morocco, where they play major role in small family farms, mainly in mountainous area  budget.

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    • I am happy to share some thoughts and ideas .

      1. Impact of COVID-19 outbreak in NENA region. 

      COVID 19 pandemic did have consequences for small scale holders mainly due to disruption in value chains and reduced market access.  However there are  successful cases where tiny scale farming did help families ensure their food supply during the complete lockdown period.

      Therefore, I think it is important to guarantee land tenure for SSFF and provide locally adapted technologies mostly for irrigation and post harvest losses.

      2.  Sustainable transition towards more sustainable agri-food systems

      Digital innovation could be of great value for weather predictions and timing of cultural practices for food systems (and not only for individual areas) given the digital infrastructure is developed through remote areas.

      3.  Towards an inclusive and equitable growth

      Governments are and should be the main actors in this area through providing:

      • Infrastructures for communication (roads, internet, telephonne..);
      • Promotion  and support for women owned cooperatives in different segments of the value chain, especially as they start;
      • Temporary basic income for vulnerable families farmers and women cooperatives. 

      As example, Morocco provided temporary basic income for vulnerable families and this did have a beneficial effect on small farmers in the mountainous areas. They could access food and medication during lockdown. 

      4) Enabling environment for the implementation of UNDFF

      Since “family farming and family-based production models” are the core of UNDFF, I believe the roles for different actors could be considered as follows:

      4.1. Governments provide fundings and enabling environment through supportive policies mainly for access to resources, including finances, gender equity and market access.  They also contribute to investments and provide institutional frameworks.  

      Governments are central influential actors because they have the institutional power to deliver funding and reforms.

      4.2. Development organisations are also influential. They catalyse and enable change through providing fundings and support for the formulation of national and regional policies.  Also, they contribute to enhancing  multilateral policy dialogues and cooperation (ex. south-south cooperation) and knowledge sharing. 

      4.3. Family farms and farmer organisations are catalysers since they are active actors in combating hunger and managing agricultural diversity. In addition, they are transmitters and preservers of traditional knowledge and culture and contribute to providing employment. Finally, they are the main beneficiaries of the action plan for UNDFF;

      4.4. Civil society organisations usually have the social power and can help boost capacity building and monitoring in addition to building public support. They may be beneficiaries of fundings or provide fundings (fondations).

      4.5. Private sector organisations may be enablers and positive influencers since they have the market and the fundings, therefore providing services and investments. For example, banks could provide innovative finance that do not exhaust small farm resources.

      With my best regards

       

    • This was certainly a very rich discussion as I believe it is heart for rural poverty reduction:

      Reflecting on agricultural practices that are nutrion cautious, I would like to give the example of olive harvest. Traditional way of harvesting causes injury to olives, which in turn causes a loss in nutrional quality of olive oil produced from these fruits. For more information, please see page 70 in the following document in the link:

      https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d1eb/c627f64b3ece2b98f22f8882df1e96d00…

    • Dear forum members,

      I would like to respond to this question by the facilitators 

      1) Under what conditions can agriculture succeed in lifting people out of extreme poverty? Particularly those households with limited access to productive resources.

      In my opinion, developing and encouraging food production in marginal areas should be the center to reduce extreme poverty. Local food production allows access to food and, sometimes, good nutrition. Around food production and through ages, markets and market systems developed. Unfortunately, these systems are on the way to being extinct due to competition from modern productions. For example, to harvest cereals or olives, some people use heavy machinery that is not adapted to mountains, destroys the soil and often owned by outsiders who allow its use against rent payment

      I believe that the following constitutes key components to help lifting people out of extreme poverty in marginalized areas:

      a. Capacity development to bring in the knowledge of new tools for food production. Ex drought resistant varieties of their usual food. Also, it is not enough to form cooperative. It is essential to develop a training cursus for cooperative management and food production;

      b. Any intervention needs to respect culture. Ex Dont bring in new varieties of barley where people are used to eat rice. Development cost will be higher and results not guaranteed;

      c. Develop local market systems to build the new tools and marketing. Ex. Develop harvest machineries  that are adapted and teach the locals how to build them and market them locally. This could bring job opportunities for youth.