UN agency praises Cuba’s food security program

UN agency praises Cuba’s food security program
by: W. T. Whitney Jr.
June 15 2015

United Nations agencies, notably the World Health Organizations, UNESCO, and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), have often praised Cuba for achievements in satisfying its people's basic needs.

On May 30 in Havana, the FAO representative in Cuba, Theodor Frederick, testified to the Cuban government's success in maintaining food security for all Cubans. He based his remarks on the recently published FAO document titled "Panorama of Food and Nutritional Insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean- 2015."

Some of the data provided in that publication appeared earlier in the FAO publication "The State of Food Insecurity in the World - 2014," which offers a wide-ranging survey of hunger in the world - more precisely, under nutrition. It cites a total of 805 million persons who were hungry that year, or nine percent of the world's population.

Latin America and the Caribbean "registered the greatest progress [among regions of the world] in reducing hunger," according to the publication.

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