Presidential Advisor on Sustainable Development Navin Chandarpal recently told a United Nations forum that international financial institutions should provide concessionary term credit for small agricultural producers to assist them in overcoming the high cost of restarting after losses due to floods, pests or other natural phenomena.
Chandarpal was addressing the Sixteenth Session of the UN Commission on Sustain-able Development on the Thematic Cluster of Agricul-ture, Rural Development, Land, Drought, Desertifica-tion and Africa, in New York last Friday.
He also called for sustained and scaled-up investment in agriculture at all levels, including the enhancement of the security of tenure for small land-holders and the preservation and expansion of agricultural livelihoods.