WFP promotes food sovereignty in Holguín
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The World Food Program (WFP), of the United Nations (UN), enhances food sovereignty and resilience capacities in productive ways through the Gibara Verde x Ciento project being implemented in that region of the province of Holguín.
In a tour to evaluate the progress of the program, Doctor of Science Robert Manuel Leyva Martínez, its coordinator in the territory, explained that these actions seek to establish a direct link between productive forms and social protection networks, to which they provide healthy, nutritious and affordable food in a way that generates a replicable model.
Currently, there are four Credit and Service Cooperatives (CCS) from that coastal municipality involved in the project, which have so far contributed more than 12 thousand tons of agricultural products since the launch in November last year, he said.
Leyva Martínez pointed out that before obtaining these results, training and advice strategies were generated along with gender workshops, and the CCS developed their business plans based on a survey with the main needs for a response to the demands.
In this way, with an investment that exceeds 400 thousand dollars, vital tools and means capable of improving production methods were provided, such as laying houses, mechanical scales and plastic boxes, it is also expected the arrival of kitchen utensils for the institutions linked to it, he added.
The specialist pointed out that among them are seven dining areas of the Family Care System, four semi-boarding schools and two daycare centers, which can acquire supplies at differentiated prices and based on their specific needs, with a direct impact on more than 1,300 children and elderly, and about 30 thousand people who live near the cooperatives.
The World Food Program, with 60 years of collaboration in Cuba, also has other projects in the province such as the AES+ for sustainable school feeding, and ¡Actúa diferente!, to reinforce local food systems in the face of natural disasters and the effects of the climate change, which provide territorial solutions to intelligent agriculture and adequate nutrition in the municipalities of Urbano Noris, Cueto and Mayarí. (Source: ACN)
