President Samia Suluhu Hassan has urged African countries to accelerate their transition to sustainable agriculture in order to meet the challenge of feeding the continent's fast-growing population.
She said Africa faced a daunting task of adequately feeding a chronically undernourished, fast-growing and increasingly urban population, but needs to adopt better and smarter ways.
“To do this, we ought to collaborate, innovate, and implement strategies that help us meet the needs of the current generation without putting at risk the needs of future generations,“ she said at the Climate and Food Security meeting in Oslo, on the margins of her two-day State Visit to Norway.
Africa must not only produce food, it must also create employment and generate incomes for rural and urban populations alike through sustainable, productive and equitable production systems and value chains, she noted.
The President also reiterated her commitment to work with the international community to address climate change and the risks to food security locally in Tanzania and globally.
Through its nationally determined contribution, Tanzania has set a target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions economy-wide by between 30-35% by 2030.
Meanwhile, President Samia witnessed the signing of agreements between Norway's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Tanzania's Agriculture Ministry for bilateral cooperation on food security and agriculture.
A Memorandum of Understanding was also signed between the Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences for cooperation in education.
The President also
witnessed the signing of a sub-grant agreement between the Norwegian Institute
of Bio Economy Research and the Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI)
worth 9.9 million Norweigian Kroner (Tshs 2.4 billion) to develop education and
research on soil issues and the ability to deal with climate change.
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