Morocco and Israel Lead UN Conference on Food Security and Innovative Agriculture

During this conference organized outside the 54th session of the United Nations Commission on Population and Development, under the theme "Planting for the Future: Food Security and Innovative Agriculture", the Moroccan Ambassador to the UN welcomed this Moroccan-Israeli collaboration initiative in relevant areas of life. "As we prepare for the Food Systems Summit in September, the time has come to work on strong partnerships and accelerate the essential action," he added, while highlighting Morocco’s assets.

Speaking at this meeting, the Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, indicated that the year 2020 marked by the pandemic "has taught us the urgency and importance of bringing the issue of food security, and the technologies that will help us achieve this important goal, to the top of global priorities." Thus, his country is happy to present at the United Nations a decision on agricultural technologies in the service of sustainable development. Furthermore, the Food Systems Summit scheduled for September 2021 will consolidate the message that everyone must work together to completely change "the way the world produces, consumes and thinks about food".

For her part, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the 2021 Food Systems Summit, Agnes Kalibata, congratulated the efforts of Morocco and Israel for organizing this event, stressing that this summit will be a decisive moment in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Director of the Israeli Agency for International Development, Eynat Shlein, the Director General of AMCI, Mohamed Methqal, as well as several ambassadors representing Africa and America also gave their appreciation of the Morocco and Israel initiative on food security and sustainable agriculture.