Above: Parliament in Antigua (CJ Photo)
By the Caribbean Journal staff
Antigua and Barbuda will be launching a new pilot project called “Zero Hunger.”
The project is a joint collaboration between Antigua’s government, the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, the FAO, the Pan-American Health Organization and the UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.
The project is part of a wider plan by the Food and Agriculture Organization to deal with both the reduction of hunger and the eventual eradication of hunger in the Caribbean.
The pilot project is set to last from 2013 to 2014, in the framework of the Hunger-Free Latin America and the Caribbean Inititative.
According to Dr Jose Graziano da Silva, the project also seeks to deal with issues like food insecurity and malnutrition.
Antigua and Barbuda recently approved a food and nutrition security policy, which the government said would align with this new project.