14:39 | Port-au-Prince (Haiti), Jul. 24.
The government of Peru will provide technical cooperation to gather agriculture-related information and strengthen food safety in Haiti.
The Peruvian Agency of International Cooperation (APCI) is organizing a mission comprising Peruvian experts, as part of an effort to promote the South–South Cooperation across the region.
The government of Haiti, through FAO, expressed its interest in seeking Peru’s technical cooperation to bolster and improve cultivation of quinoa, forrajero sweet potatoes, potatoes and carobs, as well as the reproduction and breeding of guinea pigs.
Peru’s vast experience suggests comparative advantages to support the project, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) pointed out.
The Peruvian mission –already in Haiti– is made up of technicians from the National Institute of Agrarian Innovation (INIA) and FAO, who have to supervise the land, gather samples and identify the agriculture-related problem in Haiti this month.
FAO plays a facilitating role by promoting exchange of experiences in agriculture, nutrition and hunger eradication fields.
APCI Executive Director Rosa Herrera and Haitian Ambassador to Peru Jean-Victor Harvel Jean-Baptiste took part in the mission’s establishment ceremony.
Herrera stressed the progress made in strengthening the Non-Refundable International Cooperation received and granted by Peru, and presented the International Technical Cooperation Catalogue including 40 successful Peruvian experiences made available to countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The APCI Catalogue and the mission to Haiti are carried out within the framework of a FAO project aimed at strengthening Peruvian agriculture international cooperation capacities within the framework of the South-South Cooperation, which seeks to encourage joint actions between FAO and the Peruvian government with regard to agriculture, nutrition and hunger eradication.
Peru and Haiti agreed to start negotiations towards a framework agreement on International Technical Cooperation in order to run a bilateral cooperation program on topics of mutual interest.
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Published: 7/24/2015