Minister of Agriculture, Khaled Hneifat, stressed the continued cooperation with the World Food Program (WFP) in implementing the action plan for the national strategy for food security and plans to deal with climate change and the expansion of afforestation.
Hneifat referred to the Royal directives pertaining to the file of food security and systems, indicating that Jordan constitutes “a good” opportunity for the international community to achieve food security by adhering to food systems.
Speaking at a meeting with the WFP Executive Director, David Beasley, on Thursday, Hneifat valued the WFP’s role and cooperation with the Jordan’s agriculture ministry in developing the national food security strategy and its action plan and supporting work of national dialogues to the UN Food Systems Summit.
Hneifat, according to a ministry’s press statement , spoke about keeping Jordan “a priority in terms of additional support amid the economic impact resulting from Covid-19 pandemic and the Syrian refugee crisis.”
Expressing Jordan’s “dissatisfaction with the reduction in aid for Syrian refugees, which coincided with the loss of many families of their jobs due to the Covid-19 crisis,” he highlighted effects of refugee crisis on Jordan and water consumption, especially in light of rainfall decrease, scarcity of water supply and extent of the need for extensive water harvesting programs to address the drought situation in Jordan.
Hneifat pointed out that Jordan Response Plan for the Syria Crisis funding and the international community’s contribution amounted to only 11 percent, adding that the Kingdom was the “most affected” by the refugee crisis.
For his part, the WFP director praised the Royal directives on food systems and security, adding that Royal ideas “serve the region and the world, not only Jordan,” which support ways of addressing food-related concerns within this “mature and long-term” vision and simulates development of the global food system.
Source: Jordan News Agency
