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Dakar, Nov. 27 (APS) – Aliou Fall, Director General of the Senegalese Institute of Agricultural Research (ISRA), stressed on Tuesday in Dakar the importance of family farms, which provide the bulk of world despite the weakness of the resources allocated to them.
"Family farms supply 80% of the world's production and provide 98% of food production in Sub-Saharan Africa, but they are characterized by a particular mode of operation due to the limited resources available to them." he says.
The CEO of ISRA was speaking at the opening of an international symposium on the future of family farms in the context of a global economy, initiated by the Agricultural and Rural Foresight Initiative (IPAR).
According to him, family farms "have always sought to meet three major challenges" that are: to feed the population in a context of high population growth and urbanization, to increase in a sustainable manner agricultural production, whatever the means put at their disposal and reduce poverty.
According to him, the problematic of the "structural transformation of the economy for inclusive growth", which constitutes axis 1 of the Emerging Senegal Plan (PSE), is "at the heart of the commitment" of Jacques Faye, to whom the symposium pays tribute.
Mr. Faye was a researcher at ISRA and the Center for International Cooperation in Agronomic Research for Development (CIRAD), before becoming a counselor at the National Council for Rural Cooperation and Consultation (CNCR).
"Rigorous researcher, passionate and tireless activist of peasant agriculture and stubborn defender of the rural world, his research and consultancy activities", Jacques Faye's stances "in the public debate in favor of family farming had aim to influence agricultural and rural development policies in Senegal and West Africa, "he said.
Michel Pedi, CEO of CIRAD, recalled that "the arrival of Jacques Faye within CIRAD has been a small cultural revolution (…)". "He was the first African recruited at CIRAD. He has always fought for the cause of agriculture, "he said.
He also referred to the monitoring of the evolution of Senegalese agriculture and family farms in particular, an issue that he said has always been a strong concern, including researchers and producer organizations.
For Aminata Fall, Chair of the IPAR Board of Directors, the conference "offers the opportunity to take a lucid look at the place and role of family farms in a context marked by social upheavals public and environmental environmental".
In turn, she greeted in Jacques Faye was "a committed man, militant of the cause of a thing socially and politically involved".
This symposium on the future of family farms in a global context is part of the 10th anniversary of IPAR and is organized in partnership with the CNCR, ISRA, the Center for International Cooperation in Agricultural Research for Development (CIRAD).
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the European Union (EU) also supported the organization of the symposium, which attracted 150 participants from West Africa and Europe.
The first day of this conference scheduled for Wednesday is dedicated to the tribute to Jacques Faye, the work of the last day to address the scientific aspects of the problem, including lessons learned to inform policy decisions.
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