Tunisia will attend a regional hybrid workshop involving the European Union (EU) and Southern Mediterranean countries on the theme: “Dialogue on Sustainable Food Systems: from Production to Consumption.” The event is due next May 10-11 in Cairo.
The workshop – funded by the EU under the Farm to Fork Strategy – will bring together key experts, policy makers and public actors of the European bloc and Southern neighbours (Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Jordan and Lebanon) to discuss sustainable and resilient food systems.
The meeting will offer the opportunity to exchange points of view in a bid to identify common ground, principles and actions and explore avenues to scale up and expand regional cooperation.
Debate will mainly centre around ways for the EU and Southern Mediterranean countries to pool their efforts to advance towards sustainable and resilient food systems.
Key themes are soil health, sustainable use of fertilisers and innovation, the sustainable use of pesticides, food wastage and sustainable consumption.
These three topics will enable food system stakeholders to identifty strategies, policies and practices that can help drive the sought-after change.
Speakers from Eypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Jordan and Lebanon will take the floor; a debate is set to follow on existing or potential synergies between approaches that would pave the way for collmaboration and the way such a collaboration would support global transition.
The workshop is one in a series of regional and national workshops financed by the European Commission’s Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI) under the Farm to Fork strategy- the EU’s plan ti make food systems fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly.
Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse