City corporations to collaborate with FAO

City corporations to collaborate with FAO

The city corporations in Dhaka, in collaboration with FAO, have been planning to ensure sustainable urban food security in the next two decades.
With technical assistance from Wageningen University of Research (WUR) of the Netherlands, the Government of Bangladesh is planning to develop the Dhaka Food Agenda 2041.
If implemented, the agenda will guide the country’s policymakers to incorporate urban food system planning into national policies, said a press release published on Monday.
“Our goal is to make the food system of the metropolitan area of Dhaka more inclusive, resilient, and sustainable by supporting the Government of Bangladesh to develop the Dhaka Food Agenda 2041,” said Chief Technical Adviser of FAO’s Dhaka Food System project John Taylor.
“We also believe that Dhaka and many cities across the country can also develop similar strategies,” he said while speaking at the seminar titled National Food System Priorities and Preparation of the Dhaka Food Agenda 2041.
The seminar was organized jointly by Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) at Nagar Bhaban in the capital.
DNCC Chief Health Officer Brigadier General Zobaidur Rahman attended the seminar, while DNCC CEO Selim Reza chaired the event.
FAO’s Dhaka Food System (DFS) project is funded by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which is working to increase access to affordable, high-quality food for all of the city’s inhabitants.
In addition, Dhaka Food Agenda 2041 will complement the actions taken United Nations Food Systems Summit last year.
During that seminar, it was agreed that four city-level seminars are needed to fully engage a diverse and representative set of stakeholders. The following three seminars will take place this month in Dhaka South, Gazipur, and Narayanganj.