UN report urges Syria to rebuild ag sector
Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General, José Graziano da Silva, said "ramping up investment in the recovery of the agriculture sector could dramatically reduce the need for humanitarian aid. It could also have a significant impact on stemming the flow of migrants".
The report also suggested that, a reinvigorated Syrian agricultural industry would help curb the nation's food crisis, on the basis that 80 percent of the internally displaced people in Syria rely on agriculture as a means for survival.
While the need for a more substantial agricultural sector is indisputable, analysts say the UN's report is overly simplistic by failing to identify the specific actors that caused the decline of the Syrian agricultural industry with the outbreak of violence.
source: alarby.co.uk
