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39th Session of the Committee on World Food Security Chad: Enhancing rural
Rome, 18 October 2012- Cotton is fundamental to the economies of many developing nations, particularly in West and Central Africa, where around 10 million small farmers depend on the sector for their income.Brazil and FAO signed a new South-South cooperation agreement today worth $20 million that aims to channel Brazilian expertise in cotton production to other developing countries.

The agreement says that through cooperative rural development efforts undertaken with other developing-world cotton producers such as Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali, Brazil will bring in its considerable experience in devising new technologies for the cotton production chain.
In the following interview, Dr. Djimé Adoum, Chad's Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation who attends the 39th Session of CFS, has more:
4min. 43sec.
Sujet(s): Sécurité alimentaire
Produit par: FAO
 
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