FAO calls for smarter water governance to safeguard food security

Other participants at the high-level segment included: King Letsie III of Lesotho; LI Junhua, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs; Yasmine Fouad, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification; Retno L. P. Marsudi, United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Water; Qurbon Hakimzoda, Minister for Agriculture, Tajikistan; Ibrahim Yumakli, Minister for Agriculture and Forestry, Türkiye; Arsen Zhakanbayev, Vice Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, Kazakhstan; Moustapha Zakia, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Syrian Arab Republic; Abdulaziz bin Malek Al Malek, Deputy Minister for Research and Innovation, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (online); Chayan Muangsong, Secretary-General, Office of the National Water Resources, Thailand; Salahddine Dahbi, Director General of Water, Ministry of Equipment and Water, Morocco; Xinyang Chi, Deputy Director General, International Economic and Technical Cooperation and Exchange Center (INTCE), Ministry of Water Resources, China; Winfried Wicklein, Director General, Asian Development Bank (ADB) and government representatives from Germany and Sri Lanka.