Guatemala
In Guatemala, “Mesoamerica Hunger Free AMEXCID-FAO” targets its efforts at a territorial level in the department of Chiquimula, where the Programme has promoted and validated innovative practices for a sustainable hydrobiological and agricultural production, facilitating access to nutritious foods and generating better opportunities for family farmers.
At a national level, the Programme focuses on the creation of instruments, which facilitate the definition, and implementation of targeted policies for family farming. These actions play a crucial role on focusing public policy efforts to ensure that their benefits can reach the peripheries, and creating opportunities to face the new challenges of the most vulnerable communities.
Some of the results achieved and the actions that “Mesoamerica Hunger Free AMEXCID-FAO” supports in Guatemala are the following:
- Elaboration of instruments for the territorialization of the National Policy for Integral Rural Development and creation of the Territorial Management Center of the Copán Chortí Community.
- Strengthening the capacities of family farmers and producer associations in the production of vegetables in macro-tunnels, tilapia production, rabbit breeding and production of handicrafts with native plant fibers.
- Technical accompaniment in the approval and socialization of the School Feeding Law and its regulations.
- Definition of technical and operational guidelines for implementing public purchases from family farming, and design of a platform for monitoring school feeding purchases.
- Improvement of infrastructure for school feeding in educational centers in Chiquimula.
- Development of a strategy to ensure healthy environments in schools participating in the School Feeding Program.
- Development of a strategy to promote youth entrepreneurship.
- Development of a model to territorialize the Great National Crusade for Nutrition.
- Technical support in the construction of a Single Farmers Registry.