Diaz-Canel and Manuel Marrero direct the analysis of the Food Sovereignty Plan and Nutritional Education. Photo/ Estudios Revolucion.
HAVANA, Cuba.- The President of the Republic, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz led this Tuesday afternoon the analysis of the Food Sovereignty and Nutritional Education Plan designed in the country taking into account international principles for the treatment of these issues and their impact on the population.
How we sustainably produce food at the local level and in turn we achieve, with the integrated efforts of the ministries and agencies of the Central Administration of the State, a satisfaction at the level of the food priorities of the population, are essential bases that define the Plan of Food Sovereignty and Nutritional Education of Cuba.
This was considered on Tuesday by the President of the Republic, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, at a working meeting led by Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz, where some issues related to the design of this Plan were updated, in line with principles that define its essences at the international level. In the presence of Vice-President of the Republic Salvador Valdes Mesa; Marcelo Resende de Souza, representative in Cuba of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO); and Brazilian theologian Frei Betto, Dr. Elizabeth Pena Tuerruellas, head of the department of Urban, Suburban and Family Agriculture of the Ministry of Agriculture, commented that the island does not start from scratch to develop this plan, but it has as its basis the programs of municipal self-sufficiency and urban and suburban agriculture, as well as the development of fruit cooperatives.
Pena explained that it is no coincidence the willingness with which the Cuban Government has worked since the very triumph of the Revolution to constantly implement policies and programs guaranteeing a healthy and adequate diet to the people, beyond the existence or not of the Food Sovereignty Plan and Nutritional Education. “Food and nutrition security is a political priority of the country,” she said.