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The CELAC Plan for Food and Nutrition Security and the Eradication of Hunger 2025. Executive Summary

Year of publication 2015

Pages 10p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Latin America is the sub-region that has made the most progress, achieving both the Millennium Development Goal target to reduce the prevalence of under-nourishment from 14.4% in 1990/92 to 5.1% in 2012/14, and also the more ambitious goal of the World Food Summit (WFS) of 1996, by reducing the total number of people suffering from hunger, from 60.3 million to 29.5 million in the same period. These achievements reflect the commitment of the countries of the region to the implementation of polici es aimed at reducing poverty and inequality, within the framework of a human rights approach. Political commitment at the national and regional level for the eradication of hunger, became the basis for the implementation of institutional frameworks, governance mechanisms and public policies for food and nutrition security, which permit short and long-term interventions to be carried out (“twin-track” approach). In this regard, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) is commi tted to ensuring Foodand Nutrition Security through a strategy of eradication of hunger and poverty in its Member States. Political will has been directed towards generating effective mechanisms to achieve this goal by the year 2025, in a region that has shown significant progress in this field, with the implementation of sectoral policies that promote the well-being of populations, increase resilience and promote best practices. This commitment, which was acquired by the countries of the region in the year 2005 through the Hunger Free Latin America and Caribbean Initiative, remains in effect as outlined in the two Declarations of the Heads of State and Government of the CELAC (2013 and 2014).

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