According to Mehr news agency, citing the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution, a specialized meeting on “Executive requiremes of the national knowledge-based docume on food security” was held in the Secretariat of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution with the presence of a group of officials and experts. Iman Eftekhari, Secretary of the Science and Technology Staff of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution, discussed various aspects of the food security docume in this specialized meeting.
Emphasizing the importance of the food security docume, he called it a big, strong, reliable and comprehensive docume and listed ten importa features for it and said: This docume includes various aspects of food security and fully defines it. is It also covers the four main pillars of food security, i.e. availability, access, consumption, health and resilience.
Emphasizing maximum participation, he said: In writing this docume, all stakeholders, including private and public sectors, institutions, parliame, associations, and colleges have participated. Also, this consensus docume has brought the opinion of differe iellectual spectrums in the coury in the field of food security.
The Secretary of the Science and Technology Staff of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution stated that this docume was compiled realistically and with the aim of implemeation and coinued: its indicators are designed based on the implemeation needs. Also, this docume has a strong theory with one eye on resources and the other on production. The theory behind the docume emphasizes regenerative agriculture.
Stating that this docume has fully covered the upstream documes and implemeed them precisely, Eftekhari added: This docume has strong and solid supporting documes. This docume has 60 subsections, each of which coains the most accurate numbers, figures and indicators.
Stating that each of the sub-documes was written by the most expert people in that field, he said: This docume is based on knowledge and seeks to take advaage of neglected capacities to increase the weight of knowledge in the production of food products. It also emphasizes reducing the cultivated area, reducing water and input consumption, and increasing productivity.
The secretary of the science and technology headquarters emphasized that the food security docume has many innovations, he expressed hope that these capacities will be used effectively.
Iftikhari emphasized: The food security docume is an action plan that was developed with the aim of changing the existing approaches and policies in the field of food production and distribution, and accordingly, it requires the cooperation of all responsible institutions and bodies in this field.
He called one of the most importa strengths of this docume a strong theory based on regenerative agriculture and stated: Agriculture is known as destructive, but in this docume we are looking for agriculture that can be regenerative.
He added: This docume is not only a theoretical docume, but an executive docume that was compiled using measurable indicators, and all the institutions involved in the field of food security should consider themselves obliged to impleme it.
Ier-agency coordination is necessary for the implemeation of the food safety docume
The secretary of the science and technology staff of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution emphasized the importance of cooperation and coordination between differe institutions and organizations for the implemeation of this docume and stated: The successful implemeation of this docume requires iegration and coordination between all institutions and everyone should work together. Try to achieve the goals of the docume.
While inviting all institutions to actively participate in the implemeation of the food security docume, he expressed hope that with the full implemeation of this docume, we will witness an improveme in the food security situation in the coury.
Food security and its impact on resistance economy
Eftekhari further poied out the necessity of laying rails in the field of food security, and emphasized that the position of this issue as the first priority in the coury should be given more atteion. He also stated that the path to food security should be a coinuous path that will ultimately be effective in a resilie economy and make the coury resista to external and iernal eves.
The Secretary of the Science and Technology Staff of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution, referring to the benefits of the food security docume, such as the significa participation of stakeholders and experts in the preparation of this docume, its more or less consensus among those involved in the implemeation of the issue, its realism and accurate indexing, and He considered being knowledge-based as one of its most importa advaages.
He also poied to the role of the food security docume in creating discourse, and noted that today the issue of food security is raised as a public demand in the coury far more frequely than before, and even in the cultured environmes of the coury, it has eered io the discourse that actually the docume was drafted in This has been effective.
Iftikhari we on to say that when we face the real issues of the coury and executive decisions, we must pay atteion to what factors in the past caused some things that could have been realized earlier, not being addressed sufficiely and what obstacles there were. is
Dr. Eftekhari poied out that after the notification of the food security docume, we have faced several approaches and requests regarding its implemeation. He stated that in order to follow up the executive structure of the docume, it seems that the conflicts that have existed uil now and that a specific secretariat has not taken responsibility for the implemeation of this docume are the main bottlenecks of work and starting work.
How to impleme the food security docume
The secretary of the science and technology staff of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution preseed his suggestions for better follow-up of the docume’s implemeation as follows: a responsible body should be formed in the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad and at the same time the tasks of other institutions should be determined and the colorful presence of institutions such as the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry Health and all institutions involved in this field should exist in it. This institution can be synergistic with the Supreme Council of Health and Food Security uil a decision is made about it.
In the stateme of the second proposal, he stated: If the first proposal is not fulfilled, executive secretariats should be formed in the main institutions and a coordinating body at the level of the presidency or the first vice preside should be established to resolve possible conflicts between these secretariats.
In the end, Eftekhari emphasized the importance of effort and iellectual support necessary for the implemeation of the docume, and expressed hope that we will witness the improveme of the coury’s food security situation with accurate and effective decisions.
Represeatives of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Organization of Agricultural Research, Education and Promotion and a number of experts were also prese in this meeting and expressed their opinions.
