Scaling-up Mesoamerica hunger free

Since 2015, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has joined forces with the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (AMEXCID) to implement the ‘Mesoamerica hunger free’ South-South cooperation programme.

Thanks to the Mesoamerica hunger free programme, FAO has provided technical assistance to lawmakers, the Ministries of Agriculture, Social Welfare and Education in nine countries: Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and the Dominican Republic, in preparing legal instruments and developing and implementing public policies and programmes, focused on achieving food security and nutrition and reducing rural poverty.

A specialized, demand-driven component of the programme has allowed for the mobility of Mexican expertise to meet specific technical cooperation demands requested by the countries.

The programme has also been able to reinforce the policy dialogue processes, peer-to-peer exchange of experiences and capacity development activities carried out at regional level with different stakeholders of beneficiary countries (policy makers, technical teams, lawmakers).

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