“Here at the 2021 Food and Soil Festival, the consumer’s place has been highlighted in favor of the promotion of local milk …”, according to Mrs. Khady Thiané Ndoye, Program Officer CICODEV Africa
They are certainly not in the stands or exhibition boxes of the 21st edition of the International Fair of Agriculture and Animal Resources (FIARA 2021) whose main theme is focused on : “Stay Here, Work Here, Succeed Here…For an Agriculture Lever of Economic Recovery”, but CICODEV Africa, under the leadership of Amadou Kanouté, Executive Director and Mrs. Khady Thiané Ndoye, Program Officer at Cicodev Africa and Focal Point of this structure to the Food and Soil festival (www.festivalalimenterre.sn) is present under the banner of the Food and Soil festival Senegal 2021, 4th edition of the kind, which is focused on : “How to take up the challenge of consuming locally! “This festival coincides with the World Milk Day (WMLD 2021), the 21st edition of its kind focused on the theme: “Local Milk Value Chain, Vector of employment for women and youth …”, in partnership with the National Council for Consultation and Rural Cooperation (CNCR). “We are delighted with this partnership with the CNCR in the framework of the Food and Soil Festival and this day was an opportunity to visit institutions, schools and daaraas and farms and an opportunity to question the policies in favor of school feeding, but also to promote local consumption, so this is a partnership of three years now with the CNCR around the Food and Soil Festival for a civic commitment and a change in consumer consumption models. So this year has been particularly interesting because schools were the first to be questioned regarding food sustainability issues”, argued, in front of the Senegalese and African agricultural press, Mrs. Khady Thiané Ndoye, CICODEV Africa Program Officer, during the official opening ceremony of the 4th edition of the Food and Soil festival, in the context of the Fiara and in the framework of the World Milk Day (WMD 2021), celebrated on June 1st of each year following the example set by the international community. According to Mrs. Khady Thiané Ndoye, in these terms: “Here at the 2021 Food and Soil Festival, the importance of the consumer has been highlighted in favor of the promotion of local milk, but especially the consumption of milk by consumers.
We, CICODEV Africa, as a consumer organization, are called to the forefront for issues of awareness of the value chain of local products including local milk which is discussed during this Food and Soil. As a reminder, CICODEV Africa is an international organization that intervenes in favor of the consumer, it also intervenes on land issues (World Land Forum Dakar 2015: Editor’s note), Health … In short, CICODEV Africa was one of the first structures very present in the editions of the International Fair of Agriculture and Animal Resources (FIARA).
By Amadou Tidiane Sow