The two-day conference brings together government, academia, development agencies and banks, civil society and the private sector from 60 countries to discuss food security, water and investment in dryland countries.
It will come up with recommendations for action in the three areas to feed into future policies, strategies and investments to boost agricultural production to enhance food security and increase resilience to future prices shocks.
Graziano da Silva warned: “We are losing the battle against hunger in Africa and the Near East,” Graziano da Silva told the conference, pointing out that the number of hungry people in the regions has increased by 83 million to 275 million since the early 1990s.
“Natural resources degradation in dryland countries threatens more than two billion people.”
Source: FAO
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