More than three billion people eat rice
everyday, the Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO) has said. They also
insist the food is critical in ending hunger
in the world.
Rice has been aclaimed to be pivotal in ending
hunger in the world given how accepted it is
worldwide
Maria Semedo, deputy director-general
of Climate and Natural Resources at
FAO, said the agency was concerned
about global rice production and
eradicating hunger around the world.
“With over three billion people across
the globe eating rice every day, rice is
critical to global food security,” Semedo
said.
Accordingly, the UN agriculture agency
has taken step to help rice farmers
bolster production.
The UN agency said it has teamed up
with an international research institute
to enhance rice farming and make it
more adaptable to climate change.
FAO announced that it would work with
the International Rice Research Institute
(IRRI) to support sustainable rice
production in developing countries to
improve food security and livelihoods,
while also safeguarding natural
resources.
According to FAO, the two organizations
will work together to assist rice
producing countries to “adopt improved
and adapted rice varieties, enhance
availability of certified seeds and the
transfer of knowledge.”
FAO and IRRI will also work to help
women farmers participate in “viable,
safe and dignified” entrepreneurial
opportunities in the rice value chain,
the UN agency said.
Meanwhile, FAO has developed the
Regional Rice Initiative for Asia and
Pacific which promotes enhanced crop
resilience while increasing efficiency
and farmers’ income.
In Africa and Latin America the UN
agency is engaged in scientific and
technical cooperation including the
sharing of technologies and best
practices to increase production and
productivity, especially reduction of
post-harvest losses and improved grain
quality.
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For its part, IRRI is engaged in
strengthening capacities of all rice
sector actors through its capacity
development activities.
The partnership is a global alliance to
promote resource efficiency and
sustainability in trade flows, production
and consumption operations, and
supply chains in the global rice sector.
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