(Business in Cameroon) - Brazilian agronomist José Graziano da Silva, re-elected, last June, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations arrived in Yaoundé on September 3rd, 2015. It has been revealed that, the signing of an agreement, to change FAO’s representative in Cameroon into a liaison office, is expected during Mr. da Silva’s stay in the country.

According to Cameroon’s authorities, installing this liaison office will provide the country with more of FAO’s experts from various areas who should contribute, more efficiently, to the implementation and monitoring of programs initiated by the government.

The creation of an FAO’s liaison bureau in Cameroon comes about two months after Cameroon has been recognized, by the institution, for reaching the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) alongside 12 other countries. As a reminder, the MDG aim is the fight against hunger in the world.