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ALGIERS, Nov 27 (BERNAMA-NNN- APS) -- Representatives of the 10 countries bordering the Western Mediterranean Basin are gathered in Algiers for their first ministerial conference on agriculture and food security beginning Wednesday.
This conference will be focusing on setting up a High-level segment which will deal with agriculture and food security as part of the 5 5 Dialogue which involves Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Mauritania and Morocco from North Africa and Spain, France, Malta, Portugal and Italy from the northern shore of the Mediterranean, according to a statement from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development here.
This High level Segment for Food Security will represent a reference point for orienting common actions with shared benefits through which will be created the conditions of regional lasting food security as a strategic objective, guaranteeing full access of all the inhabitants of the ten partner countries to food necessary for their sound and active life.
"The planned exchanges will allow drawing a shared approach of food security, which encompasses both economic and social dimensions, even political and ethic, and take in account the specificities it shows at sub-regional and regional levels," the statement added.
The conference will be also devote itself to the consideration and the adoption of the recommendations of expert workshops, held on Monday and Tuesday in Algiers. These reports cover the setting up of a common strategy and tangible measures to ensure food security for 300 million people living in the ten countries of the Western Mediterranean.
This first ministerial conference of the 5 5 Dialogue on agriculture and food security is taking place as part of the dialogue among the countries of the Western Mediterranean and in conformity with the conclusions of 10th conference of Foreign Ministers of the 5 5, held in Nouakchott, Mauritania, in April, 2013.
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