Member State Presentations

In this section, member country representatives had a chance to present their experiences with

regards to sustainable food systems.

5.1. Morocco

Ms. FATIMA ZAHRA EL MIRI, Head of the Bilateral and Technical Cooperation, Ministry of

Agriculture, Maritime Fisheries,Rural Development and Waters and Forestry of the Kingdom of

Morocco made a presentation and shared her country experiences.

Ms. El Miri started her presentation by introducing the Green Maroc Plan Strategy and the food

security aspect under this Plan. She stated that Green Maroc Plan Strategy aims to make

agriculture an engine of economic growth by 2020, reduce poverty, ensure food security and the

long-term sustainability of natural resources in rural areas. She stated that the strategy of the

Green Morocco Plan, works fully to strengthen food security through, among others, the

implementation of high value-added agriculture development projects; and solidarity farming; the

implementation of 19 program contracts concluded between the State and professionals; and the

implementation of a contract agribusiness development program (2017-2021),etc.

Lastly, Ms. El Miri informed the participants about the programs to increase resilience against

climate change. She mentioned some details about the programs on irrigation, farm insurance,

planting, drought, etc.

5.2.

Turkey

Ms. Güler ÜNLÜ, Market Monitoring and Evaluation Section Manager, Turkish Grain Board (TMO),

made a presentation on the role of TMO in Turkish agricultural markets.

At the beginning, Ms. ÜNLÜ has mentioned that TMO has been active in Turkish agricultural

markets for 81 years and has become a success story of providing market stability in grains.

Then Ms. ÜNLÜ has informed the participants about the products in TMO's field of activity,

explained how TMO takes part in the markets and introduced the instruments of market

stabilization under TMO’s responsibility. Ms ÜNLÜ has underlined the importance of accurate and

reliable information in decision-making and explained about TMO’s market research resources.

Afterwards, Ms ÜNLÜ presented one of the examples of their institutional reports which contains

price indicators from various sources.

At the end of her presentation, Ms ÜNLÜ has emphasized on the importance and advantages of

licenced warehousing for developing functional market, and then showed the products and

warehousing capacity in Turkey by numbers.