EU organizes a seminar on food security
The Delegation of the European Union to Cambodia in collaboration with the Council for Agricultural and rural Development, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and three of the EU-funded projects (CEDAC, HKI, WHH) on October 6 organized a Food Security Project Workshop “Improving Food Security—Lessons learned and challenges ahead” to put together the best experience and knowledge on how to address the cause and the consequences of absolute poverty “Food Insecurity”. H.E. Mr. Rafael Dochao Moreno, Chare d’Affaires a.i. of EU Delegation to Cambodia said that food insecurity is both a cause and a consequence of absolute poverty. “In reality, the poorest and vulnerable people such as the landless and the small farmer and among the most chronically food-insecure.” Although Cambodia has made a remarkable economic growth in the past decade and achieve a surplus in rice production, there are still many Cambodians in different areas facing with food insecurity. “Food poverty has only fallen from 24 percent to 18 percent,” he stressed…
