Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Hasnaa, Chair of the Mohammed VI Foundation for Environmental Protection read a speech to the FAO forum for the World Food Day, held in Rome this Friday, October 14, 2016. She has signed a partnership with FAO.

Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Hasnaa read out a Royal Address at the official ceremony of the World Food Day on Friday, October 14, 2016 at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) headquarters in Rome, where she was invited alongside the Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi.

 The theme of the 2016 edition of the 36^th annual World Food Day is “Climate is changing. Food and Agriculture must too.” A theme in line with COP22 to be held from November 7 to 18, 2016 in Marrakech, which highlights how food and agriculture must adapt to climate change in order to feed a growing world population in a sustainable way.

Her Royal Highness presided over the signing of a partnership agreement between the Foundation and the FAO for the education, training and awareness of the Foundation’s different audiences, including youth, and the exchange of expertise and sharing of skills and organization of joint projects or events information and training

Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Hasnaa was also invited to a lunch hosted by the Director General of FAO, Mr José Graziano da Silva, in the Mohammed V Room of the organization’s headquarters in Rome.

The partnership will include an awareness of schoolchildren Eco-schools to a balanced and sustainable food, the development of youth educational programs and awareness of sustainable development in the fields of agriculture, forestry, fisheries. It will also aim to strengthen capacities of journalists and local actors in the same areas.

The Foundation promotes sustainable agriculture and these themes in its awareness raising and education programs. For example, it initiated a pilot agro-ecology program with a group of farmers in the Palm grove of Marrakech, bringing their training, the efficient irrigation water principles and methods of cultivation environmentally friendly.

The Foundation encourages hoteliers  to source locally for their fresh produce as part of the Green Key eco-label, including those experimenting with agroecology in the Palm Grove; it conducted with farmers in Nador spreading the experiences of treatment plants sludge to fertilize crops, rehabilitated the Arsat Moulay Abdeslam in Marrakesh, a princely garden production already applied the virtuous principles of agroforestry. The Foundation has more simply accompanied the students of the Eco-Schools program to create vegetable in their establishment.
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