FAO´s Special Programs for Food Security came up in the Global Food Summit 1996 to help countries to overcome their problems in food insecurity. In Central America, since 1999, the Government of Spain, through its Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional -AECI- (International Cooperation Agency), finances SPFS programs that are being executed through FAO, and the corresponding Ministries of Agriculture, Cattle and Food.
General causes why Central America is hungry fit with many of the global problems of food insecurity: low production, environmental vulnerability, lack of access to credit, and limited incomes to ensure basic goods as health, housing and education.
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This video, showing that it is possible to improve Nutritional Food Security in rural families of Central America. This video film presents actions in the organization; women´s participation; and the sustainability and proper management of productive resources. All these from an overall strategic vision that doesn´t accept just producing more, but ensuring that this production increases, and incomes are traslated into a better quality of life.
These experiences, called Good Practices for being an easy understandable term by all actors involved in the hunger problem, show the success that give positive answers to the questions that define Food and Nutritional Security. They make emphasis on availability and stability; diversity and harmless; econimic access and commercial transformation; and aspects related to the problems of water, health, housing and education actions that are articulated to the objectives of reducing poverty in Central America. |
