Seychelles Business Meeting urges food sovereignty
The Post- Compact High Level Business Meeting for mobilizing finances to bridge the budget gap for the Seychelles National Agriculture Investment Plan (SNAIP) has successfully been held with a call for food import substitution.
Speaking during the official opening of the Business Meeting held on the 19th November, 2015 in Mahe, Seychelles at Eden Bleu Hotel, COMESA Assistant Secretary General-Programmes, Ambassador Kipyego Cheluget congratulated the Government of Seychelles for holding the Business Meeting.
Ambassador Cheluget said Seychelles becomes the 9th COMESA Member State to host the Post-Compact High Level Business Meeting within the CAADP framework.
“The High Level Business Meeting is an additional resource mobilization platform to enable financing of the SNAIP. This is a crucial milestone to ensure the CAADP agenda moves beyond documents into full scale implementation of programmes”, he said.
Ambassador Cheluget commended the technical and financial partners who have supported the Seychelles CAADP process since inception and assured the country of COMESA’s support to the country’s social and economic transformation agenda.
Seychelles Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture Mr. Wallace Cosgrow urged local farmers to take up the challenge of meeting the country’s food and nutrition security needs and to reduce the island nation’s dependency on imported foods.