Food security workshop online on Friday

The Capricorn Foundation, in collaboration with the World Food Programme (WFP) in Namibia, hosts a one-day food security workshop, “Transformative Food Systems for Sustainable Development”, on Friday, live on their Facebook and YouTube channels.
Food systems play a crucial role in achieving food and nutrition security for all, and it remains the core of National Development Plans in Namibia. The workshop is convened on the shared values of the Capricorn Foundation and WFP: Enhancing food and nutritional security, Improving livelihoods and Accelerating socio-economic outcomes in Namibia.
In anticipation of the upcoming workshop, Ericah Shafudah, WFP’s Deputy Country Director, said that “during this global food price crisis, joint efforts are imperative to enhance the ability of smallholder farmers to adapt and endure the current climatic and economic conditions. Given these circumstances, safeguarding, and maintaining the livelihoods of vulnerable communities and assisting smallholder farmers in increasing local food production outputs requires a strategic, well-organised, and multi-sectoral approach.”
Achieving goals
Marlize Horn, Group Executive: Brand & Corporate Affairs and Executive Officer: Capricorn Foundation, added that “food systems are critical to achieving long-term food and nutrition security, environmental sustainability, climate change adaptation and mitigation, job creation, and rural livelihood transformation. We understand that the current food systems face challenges in achieving these goals; therefore, as Connectors of Positive Change, it is crucial for us to collaborate with like-minded organisations like the WFP to engage and seek various pathways toward transforming food systems in Namibia to upscale local food production and achieve sustainable development.”
The workshop is scheduled from 08:30 to 12:30 and covers the following topics:
• Transformative food systems for achieving community development;
• Scaling transformative food systems – a private sector perspective;
• The policy environment for transformative food systems and food security and;
• Partnership for transformative food systems.
For more information, contact Veripura Muukua at [email protected] or Luise Shikongo at [email protected].