{"id":443734,"date":"2011-06-19T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/19\/food-security-ecowas-to-conclude-work-on-draft-pilot-project-in-2013\/"},"modified":"2011-06-19T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T06:00:00","slug":"food-security-ecowas-to-conclude-work-on-draft-pilot-project-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/19\/food-security-ecowas-to-conclude-work-on-draft-pilot-project-in-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Food security: ECOWAS to conclude work on draft pilot project in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>\n<span id=\"fullgist\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span>The ECOWAS Commissioner for Agriculture, Environment and Water Resources, Mr. Ousseini Salifou, says a draft pilot project on food security within member countries would be concluded by 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Salifou stated this on Friday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The commissioner, who spoke through an interpreter, said the project was aimed at finding out the cause of food shortage in the sub-region and work out modalities to address it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Salifou listed Nigeria, Benin Republic, Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali as countries that would be involved in the draft project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He said the outcome of the draft project would be presented to ECOWAS Heads of State for approval.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIf they approve it, we will go ahead and implement it across the 15-member states,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The commissioner said the outcome of the project would help support the ECOWAS agricultural policy as well as the implementation of each member country\u2019s national investment programme on agriculture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He said the commission was working on the project in conjunction with the Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel and Water Resources Coordination Centre based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>NAN recalls that the ECOWAS Commission and the French Development Agency recently signed a 12.34 million Euro grant agreement to help boost food security and water resources within the sub-region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Salifou said the grant would help the commission in the planning and implementation of the draft pilot project.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Continue reading here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.punchng.com\/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201106192595257\" title=\"Food security: ECOWAS to conclude work on draft pilot project in 2013\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Food security: ECOWAS to conclude work on draft pilot project in 2013<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The ECOWAS Commissioner for Agriculture, Environment and Water Resources, Mr. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":443374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-443734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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