The World Food Program of the United Nations Organization enhances food sovereignty and resilience capacities of production units through the Gibara Verde x Ciento project, being implemented in the homonymous municipality of the province of Holguin.
In a tour to evaluate the progress of the program, PhD Robert Manuel Leyva Martínez, coordinator of the program in the territory, explained that these actions seek to establish a direct link between the production units and the social protection networks in thta coastal municipality, to which healthy, nutritious and affordable food is provided in a way that generates a replicable model.
Currently, four cooperative farms from Gibara are involved in the project, which have so far provided more than 12,000 tons of agricultural products since it was launched in November last year, he said.
Leyva Martínez pointed out that before obtaining these results, training and counseling strategies were generated together with gender workshops and the four cooperative farms prepared their business plans based on a survey of the main needs to respond to the demands.
In this way, with an investment of over 400 thousand dollars, vital tools and means capable of improving production methods were provided, such as posture houses, mechanical scales and plastic boxes, and kitchen utensils are expected to arrive for the institutions involved.
The specialist pointed out that among them are seven canteens of the Family Attention System, four semi-boarding schools and two children’s circles, which can acquire the inputs at differentiated prices and based on their specific needs, with direct impact on more than 1,300 children and elderly people and about 30,000 people who live near the cooperatives.
The World Food Program, with 60 years of collaboration in Cuba, also has other projects in the province of Holguín, such as the AES+ for sustainable school food, and the ¡Actúa diferente! project, to reinforce local food systems in the face of natural disasters and the effects of climate change, which provide territorial solutions for intelligent agriculture and adequate nutrition in the municipalities of Urbano Noris, Cueto and Mayarí.
With information from Claudia Laura Rodríguez –ACN / Translated by Radio Angulo
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