Ecobreves – HONDURAS:: Food Security in Poor Towns

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TEGUCIGALPA, Nov 14 2005 (IPS) - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is promoting a program for food security, appropriate technology, and environmentally friendly management in the 24 most impoverished municipalities of the Honduran interior. The food security program, PESA, responsible for carrying out the project, aims to ensure the economic and social well being of some 4,500 families directly, and around 22,500 people indirectly.

Roger Argueta, PESA’s communications officer, told Tierramérica that the project will begin a second four-year phase in Honduras, given the excellent results of the first phase.

FAO representative in Honduras Compton Paul said the efforts through PESA are part of “a broad strategy… to help erradicate hunger and malnutrition in the country.”