FAO recognizes Cuba’s work for food security

The representative in Cuba of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Marcelo Resende, said today, in Havana, that the country set itself the great challenge of increasingly promoting food security.

“We must recognize the Ministry of Agriculture (Minag), the Ministry of Food Industry (Minal) and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (Citma) as an agrifood system that has a synergy,” Resende said at the opening of the Cobimas cooperation project.

This program deals with the introduction of new agricultural methods on conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, including plant and animal genetic resources in productive landscapes of selected areas of the island.

During the first Cobimas workshop that will take place until Thursday at the Meliá Habana Hotel, the official said that municipalities have to be able to create local productions to supply their population “and FAO is putting all its efforts and capacity to support that intention.

Resende pointed out that FAO recognizes Cuba as a country where there is no hunger. “In several countries of Latin America and the Caribbean there are still indicators of very high numbers of hungry people,” he lamented.

(Taken from PL in Spanish)

Written by Radio Grito de Baire