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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). Role of KBRI and Diplomacy KBRI as Hub KBRI as Information channel KBRI as partner and Inquiries.
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Highlighted issues in 3 Rome based UN AgenciesAND THE ROLE OF THE INDONESIAN EMBASSY IN ROME Purnomo A. Chandra Kementerian Luar Negeri RI
Indonesian Embassy in Rome (KBRI) 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: • 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? Government Universities UN Agencies Private sectors CSO’s Farmers