Countries from across the region present exemplary experiences to change how food is produced, marketed, and consumed in the region.
Woman selling her products in Mexico.
Transforming food systems will be key to the strategy that is needed to end hunger and all forms of malnutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean, FAO and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) indicated today.
Both agencies have convened governmental authorities from the region along with international experts in a seminar in El Salvador to share public policies and successful experiences that contribute to the creation of food systems that promote healthy eating.
According to FAO and PAHO, in the last decades, the food systems in the region – the collection of stakeholders and rules that determine how food is produced, marketed, distributed, processed, and consumed, from farm to table – has undergone profound changes.
“We have experienced a radical and fast process: what Europe accomplished in one hundred and fifty years we have done in thirty”, remarked the Regional Representative of FAO, Julio Berdegué.