On the agenda of this three-day session, meetings of the advisory committee with representatives of member countries and the executive committee of the International Olive Council, as well as a scientific conference with the participation of several international and local experts.
During the opening session of this event, the Jordanian Minister of Agriculture, Khaled Hneifat, stressed the importance of communication and continuous international coordination, as well as through these meetings which contribute to the exchange expertise and information supporting food security.
The Jordanian minister underlined that his country’s presidency of the International Olive Council strengthens cooperation with all member countries, allows Jordan to take part in international meetings and bodies organized by the Council and, thus, to follow regional developments. and world in the olive sector.
It is also a question, according to him, of allowing the institutions of the public and private sectors to take advantage of the advantages of the partnership agreements signed with the member countries.
The other speakers highlighted the role of the private sector in promoting the olive sector, which is strategic in economic, social and environmental terms, given that it is a sector that guarantees balance, stability and integrated development.
They also emphasized the problem of climate change and its effects on the areas that will be planted with olive trees in the future, insisting on the need to find solutions capable of dealing with climate change in order to develop the sector both in terms of production and quality.
During the meeting of the olive oil advisory committee, Mr. Ahmed Khanoufi insisted on the need to give importance to the olive chain, in particular the study of the means allowing the adaptation of the olive tree to climate change, calling for greater efforts to promote the sector’s products, particularly in the context of the current situation, marked by the rise in the prices of other vegetable oils.
The International Olive Council has its origins in the International Olive Oil Agreement, concluded in 1955 in Geneva under the aegis of the United Nations.