Special Programme for Food Security (SPFS)

Poor Rural Communities in Mexico Receive a Boost to Support Themselves

By Emilio Godoy
Jilder Morales, a small farmer in Mexico, looks proudly at the young avocado trees that are already over one metre high on her ejido - or communal - land, which already have small green fruit.

Native Villagers in Honduras Bet on Food Security – and Win

By Thelma Mejía
The town’s dynamic mayor, Sandro Martínez, assumed the commitment of turning the Honduran municipality of Victoria into a model of food and nutritional security and environmental protection by means of municipal public policies based on broad social and community participation and international development aid.

Indigenous Community Beats Drought and Malnutrition in Honduras

By Thelma Mejía
In the heart of the Pijol mountains in the northern Honduran province of Yoro, the Tolupan indigenous community of Pueblo Nuevo has a lot to celebrate: famine is no longer a problem for them, and their youngest children were rescued from the grip of child malnutrition.


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