Turkmenistan’s capital Ashgabat will be hosting the international conference “Partnership for Food Security under Climate Change” on March 9 through 10 together with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Turkmenistan’s president Serdar Berdimuhamedov, according to AzerNews sources, signed the corresponding resolution on the organization of the conference, which instructs Turkmenistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection of Turkmenistan, to ensure, in cooperation with FAO, the organization of an international conference at a high level.
The resolution was adopted to help the practical implementation of a foreign policy aimed at strengthening food security by developing multilateral cooperation with international partners.
Previously in January, two one-hectare nurseries and a 3 hectares demonstration plot were created at the production sites of forestry enterprises of Baherden and Dashoguz, and at the training farm of Turkmen Agricultural University within the framework of the project from the FAO and Global Environment Facility (GEF).
The project aims to facilitate the National Forest Program of Turkmenistan.
The FAO said at the time that the nurseries, that will grow various types of planting material activities, were created within the FAO/GEF project “Integrated Natural Resources Management in Drought-prone and Salt-affected Agricultural Production Landscapes in Central Asia and Turkey” (CACILM-2).
At the demonstration site, the project aims to test modern methods of growing salt- and drought-resistant crops for their further distribution in the region and it will implement various agromeliorative measures on secondary salinity reduction.
The CACILM-2 project was launched in May 2018 with a budget of over $75 million and is one of the largest sustainable natural resource management initiatives co-financed by the governments of the participating countries.
Turkmenistan’s Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection, the main partner of the project to implement the National Forest Program, also purchased 25,000 seedlings of fruit and berry crops within the project in order to expand horticultural areas in different soil and climatic conditions of Turkmenistan.
