Food and nutrition security takes spotlight at Georgetown forum

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As the Caribbean Community (Caricom) continues to advance its food security agenda in the face of high food prices, member states will join their Latin American counterparts in Georgetown today (Thursday) primarily to further strengthen governance arrangements for food security at the regional and global levels.
The community, regional organisations and civil society will participate in the Hunger Free Latin America and the Caribbean Initiative Working Group meeting at the Guyana International Conference Centre in Georgetown on July 12-14. The meeting will address the steps taken at national and sub-regional levels to achieve food and nutrition security (FNS) in the region.
The Hunger Free Latin America and the Caribbean Initiative is a commitment from countries and organisations in the region, supported by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), to help create the conditions to eradicate hunger permanently by 2025. The initiative was born during the Latin American Conference on Chronic Hunger, held in Guatemala in 2005, and has the ambitious, specific goal of reducing the incidence of chronic malnutrition in children below 2.5 per cent in all countries of the region by 2025.

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