先生 Shaloom Mbambu Kabeya
Academy of Sciences & Engineering for Africa development "ASEAD" comme Coordonnateur exécutif des Projets de recherches et développement,
à l'institut Supérieur des Techniques Appliquées "ISTA" - Kinshasa, comme Assistant, dans le domaine de la gestion des projets et la chaîne de valeurs.
Shaloom Mbambu est Architecte et Ingénieur en Génie environnement, Assistant à l’Enseignement Supérieur et Universitaire (ESU), Chercheur en éducation sur la lutte contre les antivaleurs dans les Etablissements d’Enseignement Supérieur (EES) en RD Congo et Afrique subsaharienne depuis 2014. Gestionnaire des projets de développement rural et territorial, Point focal de projets de recherches et développement à l’ASEAD (Academy of Sciences & Engineering for Africa Development) et Coordonnateur de l’AEDA (Association des Etudiants pour le Développement de l’Afrique) et encadreur des étudiants depuis 2015. Actuellement, Il fait ses recherches dans le domaine d’environnement, énergies renouvelables dans la construction, et le Développement communautaire.
先生 Shaloom Mbambu Kabeya
Je félicite premièrement l’engagement de FAO et les OSC qui militent sur la lutte contre la famine, pauvreté et la qualité alimentaire. Donc l’ASEAD (Academy of Sciences & Engineering for Africa Development) qui travaille d’arrache pieds en milieu périurbain de Kinshasa et au Kasai oriental sur le développement des techniques d’agriculture durable et les techniques d’irrigation. Par contre, je suggère certaines recommandations :
Shaloom Mbambu Kabeya
Coordonnateur Exécutif des Projets ASEAD
Coordonnateur National de l’AEDA asbl
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ENGLISH TRANSLATION
First, I'd like to congratulate FAO and CSOs on their commitment to fighting hunger, poverty and ensuring food quality. So ASEAD (Academy of Sciences & Engineering for Africa Development) is working hard in Kinshasa's peri-urban areas and in Kasai Oriental on the development of sustainable agriculture and irrigation techniques. However, I would like to make a few recommendations:
If the FAO succeeds in strengthening partnerships with actors (CSOs, youth clubs, circles and formal and informal associations) in agro-business active in development in peri-urban and rural areas, this will advance production and strengthen the value chain to fight famine for the benefit of the population, and avoid the rural exodus that has been felt in southern countries.
That the players (FAO partners) manage to promote innovation that is scientific, technical and also artisanal, that adapts to the environment and target. Taking account of climate and environmental challenges. To invest in sustainable agriculture and promote capacity building for all segments of the population (young and old).
We need to be aware that since the COVID-19 pandemic, sub-Saharan Africa has not yet recovered its productive optimization. Quote: "Although the global economic recovery continues... Sub-Saharan Africa's economic recovery remains fragile and hesitant, as the slow pace of vaccination in the region leaves it vulnerable to new strains of coronavirus, undermining its economic performance. If it continues at its current pace, the continent will take longer than other regions to bring its productive sector back to pre-pandemic levels. According to the World Bank, the economic damage caused by the pandemic is likely to be felt for a long time to come." [FAO REGIONAL CONFERENCE FOR AFRICA, Impacts of the Covid-19 on agrifood systems in Africa: strategic priorities in support of an inclusive and resilient recovery, Thirty-second session, Malabo (Equatorial Guinea), April 11-14, 2022, p. 3]. With the challenges and risks of climate change looming on the horizon, partners are becoming scarce, CSOs are struggling, but demographics are challenging the challenges of food security.
FAO needs to carry out in situ surveys to be able to remedy and meet its objectives together with CSOs.
Shaloom Mbambu Kabeya
Executive Coordinator of ASEAD Projects, National Coordinator of AEDA asbl