FAO Egypt, Canadian mission discuss climate change, agriculture, food security files in Egypt

CAIRO – 9 May 2022: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO-Egypt) held a meeting with Rob Oliphant, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs on Sunday to tackle ways of enhancing cooperation and partnership in agriculture, food security, climate change sectors in Egypt.

Both sides also discussed the impacts of climate change and the Ukrainian war on the agricultural and food security sectors in Egypt, FAO-Egypt on its official Twitter account on Sunday.

The Canadian mission also listened to the successful stories of some farmers.

Honorable R Oliphant, Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Foreign Affairs of🇨🇦&high level mission, met today with @FAO officials, projects managers &👩‍🌾👨‍🌾from5⃣🇪🇬Governorates, to discuss how to enhance partnership in #agriculture,#foodsecurity & #climatechange sectors in #Egypt pic.twitter.com/gkyr2zd7KP

— FAO in Egypt (@FAOEgypt) May 8, 2022

On March 19, 2022, the Egyptian Minister of Agriculture el Sayyed el Qusair conferred with a delegation of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in preparation for COP 27 that will be hosted in Sharm el-Sheik in November.

Qusair reviewed the priorities of the Egyptian government and the fields of supporting climate work via expanding the implementation of the projects against climate change impact, Egypt’s State Information Services (SIS) said

He pointed out the support of the FAO to get funding to implement projects of climate adaptation like the projects increasing the efficiency of using water and expanding the use of new and renewable energy, especially using solar energy in the agricultural activities like irrigation in addition to the projects of increasing the efficiency of the sector of animal production.