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FAO Sub-Regional Priority Framework for the Countries of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf and Yemen(SNGPF)

Year of publication 2012

Pages 50 p.

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The FAO Sub-regional Office for the Countries of the Cooperation Council of the Arab States of the Gulf and Yemen (SNG) covers Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirate and Yemen. The SNG is a very arid Sub-region, and water is the scarcest factor of production. Despite the several challenges facing the agriculture, natural resources and rural development in the Sub-region, the SNG countries attach high priority to the development and modernization of their food, agricultur al, livestock and fisheries sectors. Agriculture including crop and animal production and fishing represents a way of living to a sizable portion of the population in several parts of these countries and contributes significantly to the economic diversification, rural settlement, poverty reduction and social stability in the Sub-region. While the SNG countries have no foreign exchange limitation to fund the Sub-region’s food imports (with the exception of Yemen), they face immense challenges to achieve the goals of its member countries managing and using its natural resources in an environmentally sustainable manner while addressing the pressing issues of food security, reducing poverty, combating desertification and enhancing rural development .In general, the Sub-region faces the following overall common challenges of: (1) Sustainable management of limited and environmentally-sensitive natural resources including saving water and protecting soils, natural vegetation and biodiversity , preserving the fisheries potential, and rehabilitation including trans-boundary diseases; (2) Sustainable availability of safe and nutritional food including the challenges of increasing food supply only based on comparative advantage and water availability, enhancing food quality and safety, managing the quantity and prices risks, diversifying the offer of food and harnessing the SNG comparative advantages; (3) Agriculture as engine for economic diversification, rural settlement, poverty redu ction and social stability; and (4) Climate changes. The SNGPF aims at translating the FAO global strategies and the Regional Strategic Priorities Framework into sub-regional priority areas and actions for achieving the Summits’ objective of halving the undernourished by 2015 in the SNG. The SNGPF takes into consideration the Sub-region’s characteristics, needs, challenges and aspirations; and proposes sub-regional inter-disciplinary priority areas for sustainable food security, agricultural and rural development. Thus, the SNGPF intends to: (1) Streamlining the functions of the Sub-regional Office for the Gulf States and Yemen in line with the regional and corporate FAO Reform and Vision; (2) Adapting FAO’s global strategies into a regional and sub-regional setting; (3) Assisting member countries in highlighting strategic priority areas in line with MDGs; and (4) Highlighting areas where the Sub-regional Office for the Gulf States and Yemen (SNG) has comparative advantage for inter-di sciplinary work.

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