Guyana and FAO sign four year country Framework Program

Guyana and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have signed a four year country Framework Programme which targets three main priority areas food and nutrition security and the sustainable management of natural resources.

FAO’s Country Representative, Ruben Robertson, described the country programme as flexible noting that the document includes relevant programme areas that the Guyana government sees fit to further push agriculture development.

Agriculture Minister Noel Holder welcomed the formation of the document noting that collaboration such as these will ensure that agriculture is given adequate attention it deserved.

He said that the four country framework programme will not only make provisions for FAO to achieve it national development goals, but will also assist the Ministry of Agriculture in its efforts to eradicate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition.

The FAO country framework programme is a planning tool, developed and co-owned and jointly implemented by the FAO and the Guyana government.