Ministry participates in regional forum on food systems in Amman

The Ministry of Municipality has participated in the high-level regional forum on "Accelerating Food Systems Transformation in the Arab Region", which was held in Amman, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The ministry's delegation to the forum was headed by Assistant Undersecretary for Agriculture and Food Security Affairs Eng Fahad Mohammed al- Qahtani .

The forum highlighted the opportunities available to enhance the transformation of Arab food systems through effective governance, means of implementation and regional cooperation. During the forum, several projects and strategies were presented on the transformation of food systems in the Arab region and experiences were exchanged.

Dr Masoud Jarallah al-Marri, Director of the Food Security Department at the Ministry of Municipality, spoke in the dialogue session on financing the transformation of food systems in the Arab region, and reviewed Qatar's strategy in financing and supporting the transformation to more sustainable food systems in the country, the principles that were relied upon and the proposals for developing financing systems in international organizations.

A number of experts and researchers from Oxford University, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP, and the World Bank (WB) participated in the session.