Participants in Food Security and Sustainable Development Forum express the need to focus on organic and climate-smart agriculture to achieve food security

Participants in Food Security and Sustainable Development Forum, held at Damascus University, stressed the importance of developing human and self-resources and shifting to organic and climate-smart agriculture to achieve food security.

Dr. Roula Bayerli from the Department of Horticulture at the Faculty of Agriculture noted the role of organic and vital agriculture in promoting sustainable agricultural development and food security.

Dr. Musa Abboud, from the Faculty of Agriculture, stressed that food security is still critical in the Arab world and needs policies, including agricultural extension and the preservation and development of human and own resources.

Dr. Hussein Al-Mahasneh, from the Department of Field Crops, pointed out that the agricultural sector was one of the largest sectors affected by the war, as its infrastructure was systematically destroyed, in addition to the presence of other factors that affected crop production and food security such as climate changes. He also noted that agricultural projects at the present time focus on what is called "climate-smart agriculture".

The themes of the conference discussed the topic of smart agriculture to achieve sustainable agricultural development and food security, as well as the problems of food processing, in addition to food security and its policies.