(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 20. At the policy level
the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
continued to support the government of Tajikistan in 2022 by
initiating technical assistance for the projects financed by the
organization to support the agricultural reforms process, develop
cooperatives, and improve the export capacity of the country, the
source at FAO told trend .
According to the source, last year, FAO, jointly with other UN
agencies, initiated Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
(IPC) in Tajikistan, which significantly contributed to the food
security monitoring system.
Technical Working IPC Group involved several relevant ministries
and agencies and conducted a food security assessment in all 64
districts of the country.
'In 2022, FAO also piloted the Food Insecurity Experience Scale
(FIES), an experience-based system of measuring individual food
security,' the organization said.
Tajikistan and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations have been cooperating since 1995. In past years, FAO
has focused on improving sustainable food security and nutrition
and increasing resilience to climate change in Tajikistan. FAO
mainly works with smallholder farmers and vulnerable parts of the
population, such as youth and children.
FAO supports the development of strategies related to the
sector, working on building capacities and brining-in updated
methodologies and farming techniques.
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