Izabela Nowacka, Valruzian Deputy Minister for Food and Agriculture:Mr. General-Secretary,
We propose a simplified name - Nutrition, Food, and Farming Organization (NFFO) with the official name Nutrition, Food, and Farming Organization of the World Congress.
In addition, we prepared a framework for the future organization, its vision, and its mission which is:
Achieving food security for all should be at the heart of NFFO's efforts – to make sure people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives.
NFFO's mandate should be to improve nutrition, increase agricultural productivity, raise the standard of living in rural populations, and contribute to global economic growth.
To meet the demands posed by major global trends in agricultural development and challenges faced by member nations, NFFO's should identify key priorities on which it will be best placed to intervene. A comprehensive review of the NFFO comparative advantages should be undertaken which would allow for strategic objectives to be set, representing the main areas of work on which NFFO should concentrate its efforts in striving to achieve its vision and global goals.
Help eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition
NFFO's challenge: provide the necessary and required assistance to countries struggling to establish and follow a policy that guarantees production and distribution of sufficient quantities of food for their citizens, help to allocate the workforce, and means to produce food so that production capacity is not wasted, establish a fund or funds to help the countries struggling to provide food for its citizen or by countries touched by natural disasters.
Make agriculture more productive and sustainable
Terra's population is growing constantly. Some of Terra's highest rates of population growth are predicted to occur in areas that are highly dependent on the agriculture sector (crops. Livestock, forestry and fisheries) and have high rates of food insecurity. Growth in the agriculture sector is one of the most effective means of reducing poverty and achieving food security.
Reduce rural poverty
Most of Terra's poor live in rural areas. Hunger and food insecurity above all are expressions of rural poverty. Reducing rural poverty, therefore, is central to NFFO's mission. Many living in rural areas have been lifted out of poverty in recent decades. Rural poverty remains widespread especially in Dovani, Seleya, and Majatra. These regions have also seen the least progress in improving rural livelihoods.
Ensure inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems
With increasing globalization, agriculture as an independent sector will cease to exist, becoming instead, just one part of an integrated value chain. The value chain exits both upstream and downstream, or from production through to processing and sales, in which the whole is now highly concentrated, integrated, and globalized. This poses a huge challenge for smallholder farmers and agricultural producers in many developing countries where even the most economically valid smallholders can easily be excluded from important parts of the value chain.
Protect livelihoods from disasters
Each year, millions of people who depend on the production, marketing, and consumption of crops, livestock, fish, forests, and other natural resources are confronted by disasters and crises. They can strike suddenly – like an earthquake or a violent coup d’état – or unfold slowly – like drought-flood cycles. They can occur as a single event, one can trigger another, or multiple events can converge and interact simultaneously with cascading and magnified effects. These emergencies threaten the production of, and access to, food at local, national, and, at times, regional and global levels.