Six Caribbean countries achieve Millennium Development Goal on hunger

In its latest report, ‘Panorama of Food Insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean 2015 ′just released (29/5/015), FAO named Barbados, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guyana, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Suriname among countries in Latin America and the Caribbean that have made that major step. Latin America and the Caribbean pioneered the proposal of eradicating hunger by 2025, a goal adopted in 2005 with the Hunger Free Latin America and the Caribbean Initiative and then fully incorporated into CELAC Plan for Food Security, Nutrition and Hunger Eradication. 

Ensuring that no man, woman, girl or boy is affected by undernourishment requires additional efforts and continued commitment to food and nutrition security in the  upcoming agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). More than 30 million people have overcome hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean in  the last twenty years, revealing in the process a valuable repertoire of public policies that  can serve as a basis for other contexts and regions. But what is perhaps more important still  is the approach that underlies these achievements, a way to fight hunger, poverty and malnutrition that combines the energies of the whole of society with strong backing from governments. This winning formula continues to gather strength and new allies, which added to the progress already made by the region shows that the eradication of hunger is a goal we can achieve during the lives of the current generation

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