At the beginning of May, at the invitation of the World Farmers’ Organization (WFO), Tamar Toria, Executive Director of the Georgian Farmers’ Association, participated in the international Symposium “Agriculture, Biodiversity and FoodSecurity: From Commitments to Actions,” held at the Quebec City Convention Centre.
The event was co-organized by Université Laval’s Graduate School of International Studies (ESEI), the Quebec government’s ministère des Relations internationales et de la Francophonie (MRIF), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
The Symposium aimed to highlight agriculture as a source of solutions to biodiversity-related challenges and sought to promote and facilitate the collective commitment of all agricultural stakeholders to the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the transformation of agrifood systems.
Tamar shared Georgia’s challenges and perspectives during the discussion session with farmers and farmer representatives and, together with the WFO delegation, contributed to the development of the Technical Roadmap: Agriculture, Biodiversity and Food Security.
After the symposium, WFO representatives visited a local Dairy Farm and had a meeting with 2nd Vice President of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture to learn from the experience of the Federation and discuss common challenges.