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ProjectStrengthening Institutional and Technical Capacity for Safe Food through Implementation of Food Safety Measures and Certification Schemes for Agricultural Products in Cambodia to Combat “COVID-19” - TCP/CMB/3803 2024
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No results found.Agriculture plays an important role in Cambodia’s economy, accounting for about 45 percent of the country’s gross domestic product and providing employment to around two thirds of the total labour force. The sector’s impressive growth over the past decade has contributed significantly to poverty reduction; however, agricultural production remains low, and many agricultural products are poor in quality. Legislative measures are either absent or not enforced, and similarly to other countries in the region, issues with food safety and sanitary and phytosanitary measures cause import rejections from relevant markets. Insufficient awareness of actors along the supply chain about hygiene and good practices related to handling, transport and storage leads to the frequent occurrence of food-borne illnesses, and the presence of live bird markets in most provinces in the country is believed to promote the amplification and dissemination of avian influenza. These issues negatively affect the livelihoods of producers, and supply chain participants and food vendors as consumers often associate food with illness rather than security and nutrition. That being said, there is an increased demand for safe and quality products both in domestic and international markets, opening up promising opportunities for smallholder farmers in Cambodia. -
ProjectTechnical Support Towards Testing and Rolling Out the Food Security Pack Component of the Zambia Integrated Social Protection Information System - TCP/ZAM/3803 2024
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No results found.Zambia’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure suffers from inadequacies and fragmentation. In recognition of these challenges, the country’s Seventh National Development Plan (7NDP) emphasized the need to improve electronic service delivery for better connectivity and communication. Within this context, the Ministry of Community Development and Social Services (MCDSS) sought to automate its Food Security Pack (FSP) Programme, which relied on inefficient and error-prone manual processes. These issues often led to high operational costs, inefficiencies in beneficiary targeting and enrolment, and problems in ensuring transparency and accountability. In 2017, the MCDSS requested assistance from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to evaluate the impact of the FSP Programme and develop a Management Information System (MIS) for its automation. In order to efficiently implement both the FSP and the Social Cash Transfer (SCT), the Government initiated the development of the Zambia Integrated Social Protection Information System (ZISPIS) with technical support from FAO and the Smart Zambia Institute (SZI). While the SCT module within the ZISPIS was complete, the FSP module needed improvement. -
ProjectBuilding Capacities on Tissue Culture to Support and Sustain Biodiversity for Food Security and Nutrition - TCP/SAM/3803 2024
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No results found.A dearth of disease-free, healthy planting materials of desired varieties in various vegetatively propagated crops of importance to Samoa has meant that many farmers and producers suffered low productivity or were unable to continue/expand their production activities, leading to food shortages and an increase in prices in local markets, restricting food access and creating food insecurity and undernutrition. Plant tissue culture has made an immense contribution in the field of science during the last 100 years, above all in the latter half of the 20th century. Plant tissue culture, i.e. the propagation of multiple plants from a small amount of plant material, also plays a pivotal role in industry, agriculture and plant breeding. Tissue culture is a technique that involves the use of small pieces of plant tissue for the multiplication of planting materials within a much shorter period of time than that required by other crop multiplication techniques. Plant tissue culture is thus an integral part of plant biotechnology and an important alternative to conventional methods of seed multiplication. Samoa’s economy depends on agriculture and, more recently, tourism, although this was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Farmers in Samoa have faced many agriculture-related issues, ranging from the low availability of disease-free planting materials to limited access to production inputs and supplies.
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