Mayabeque, Cuba: A Municipal Workshop on the National Plan for Food Sovereignty takes place today, February 16 and tomorrow, February 17, in Jaruco.
The exchange between producers and agricultural leaders emanates from the conferences given by the prestigious Brazilian intellectual Frei Betto in the Cuban capital, last January, on the need to promote nutritional education.
The Specialist of the Agricultural Training School in Mayabeque, Elíseo Almeida García, states that the objective of the meeting is to create and develop local systems that contribute to the substitution of imports and promote nutritional culture and the use of agricultural techniques. -ecological.
The National Food Sovereignty Plan is the first of its kind in Cuba, it was approved by the Council of Ministers on July 22, 2021. Its formulation had the technical assistance of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, as well as other international institutions.
