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An Assessment of the Governance Structure and Coordinating Mechanisms for Food and Nutrition Security in Guyana

Year of publication 2017

Pages 59 p.

Author Ballayram, T.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Guyana has made good progress in advancing its food and nutrition security (FNS) agenda. The country is self-sufficient is food, fish and meat, and has met the World Food Summit (1996) and Millennium Development Goals (2015) hunger targets, as well as most of the targets in the other MDG Goals. Food energy supply in Guyana is enough to meet the population’s recommended food energy requirements. However, the lack of access to food and nutritional inadequacy are the main challenges to food and nut rition security. Poverty, low wages, high unemployment (particularly among youths), and long-run low average real economic growth constrain particularly rural households and those from the indigenous community to access adequate nutritious food. In addition, unhealthy food choices drive the increasing prevalence of obesity and its co-morbidities, namely, nutrition-related chronic non-communicable diseases NCDs), which are now the main public health problem in the country. Improved governance of the determinants of food access and nutritional adequacy is needed.

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