Transcript Highlighted issues in 3 Rome based UN Agencies

HIGHLIGHTED ISSUES IN
3 ROME BASED UN AGENCIES
AND THE ROLE OF
THE INDONESIAN EMBASSY IN ROME
Purnomo A. Chandra
Kementerian Luar Negeri RI
Indonesian Embassy in Rome (KBRI)
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Role of KBRI and Diplomacy
KBRI as Hub
KBRI as Information channel
KBRI as partner and Inquiries
Role of KBRI and Diplomacy (1)
KBRI Rome
• Agriculture Attache
• Counsellor for Multilateral issues
• Supervised by Permanent Representative/Deputy
Cover
• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
• International Fund for Agriculture Development
(IFAD)
• World Food Programme(WFP)
Role of KBRI and Diplomacy (2)
Diplomacy (with guidance and instruction from
capital/related ministries)
• Negotiations, through formal and informal meeting
• Conference, Council, Committee (FAO)
• Governing Board, Executive Board, Committee (IFAD and
WFP)
• Grouping, regional group (Asia group), G77
• Consultations/brainstormings (Secretariat of FAO, IFAD,
WFP and other related International Organization as well as
International NGOs)
• Lobby/approach to seek common positions or to influence
for the seek of support (to other members)
Role of KBRI and Diplomacy (3)
To negotiate and facilitate (with guidance and
instruction from capital/related ministries)
• programme of FAO, IFAD and WFP to
Indonesia
• capacity building and technical assistance to
Indonesia
KBRI as HUB
KBRI as Hub
• FAO, IFAD and WFP
• Government of Republic of Indonesia (related
ministries)
• Multi stakeholders (civil society, NGOs,
academicians, private sector, etc.)
KBRI as Information channel
• All information and communication
concerning food security and related issues or
related information on FAO, IFAD and WFP
• Invitation for meeting
• All programme of FAO, IFAD and WFP
• Capacity Building and Technical Assistance
• Professional vacancies
KBRI as partner and Inquires
• Partner for all stakeholders (civil society,
NGOs, academicians, private sector, etc.)
• Inquiries for private sector or other
stakeholders:
For information on trade and investment
opportunities between Indonesia and Italia as
well as other information
Global issues in 3 Rome
based Agencies:
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Food Security
Climate Change
Genetic resources
Land and soil resources
Scaling up of the best practices
Rural development
Nutrition
Global issues in 3 Rome
based Agencies:
FOOD SECURITY
Food Security in alert, i.e.:
 Famine in Horn of Africa, North Africa,
 Flooding in some Asian countries
 Food Price Volatility
 Food and Climate related issues
Food Security in Indonesia
Indonesia has strong capital base in food security
 Land resources: soil fertility, soil availability
 Genetic resources and utilization: Mega-biodiversity,
Staple food, Plantation crops, Livestock,
microorganisms  food diversification
 Water resources and management: Tropical rain forest
 Human resources: Research Institutions in Agriculture,
Universities, Skilled workers, experiences
 How do these become a powerful tools to combat
poverty and food insecurity?
Food Security as a Global issues
• FAO, IFAD, WFP
• PBB (Committee 2, agenda Agriculture
Development, Food Security dan
commodities)
• G20 related issue on food security
• APEC
• ASEAN
• OIC
Climate Change:
Two issues:
 De-forestation
 Fossil fuel utilization
Real impact:
 Uncertainty of season for planting (drought,
flooding)
 Explosion pests and diseases
 Decreases crop yield and crop failure
 Renewable and alternative energy
 Sustainable Agriculture
Genetic resources for food and
agriculture
 Plant, animal and microbes
 FAO - ITPGRFA (International Treaty on Plant
Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture)
 Collaboration and sharing in GR to improve
resilience to climate change (research, agriculture
development, training, etc)
 Improve awareness to our important genetic
resources
 Access Benefit sharing on genetic resources
 Support conservation in GR
 Gene bank
Land and soil resource as important
element in Agriculture
Global Issues on land degradation,
desertification
 Improve land fertility
 Land conservation program
 Voluntary Guideline for land Tenure
 Global Soil Partnership
Improve the scale of beneficiaries
 Scaling up best practices to other area and
around the world
 Improve crop yield
 Sustainable agriculture and conservation
 Improve livelihood and farmer income
 Improve nutrition
 Financial support, investment, etc.
 Technical assistant
The opportunities
FAO, IFAD and WFP
• Programme of FAO, IFAD and WFP
• Capacity Building and Technical Assistance
• Job opportunities/vacancies (through website
of FAO, IFAD and WFP)
www.fao.org; www.ifad.org; www.wfp.org
Who do what?
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Government
Universities
UN Agencies
Private sectors
CSO’s
Farmers
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