BARBADOS IS taking meaningful steps in making food security a reality.
Minister of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries Dr David Estwick said yesterday the Food and Nutrition Security Policy and Action Plan has been drafted and would soon be submitted to Cabinet.
“The overall strategic objective of the plan is to achieve the optimum degree of self-reliance that contributes to food and nutrition security through a strategy that aims to maximise domestic food production and to ensure all households have sufficient resources and knowledge to access adequate, safe, affordable and nutritious foods,” he said.
Estwick, addressing the launch of a food and nutrition security media campaign in the ministry’s Graeme Hall headquarters, Christ Church, said the plan would begin this year and end in 2019, adding that he was satisfied it would address the relevant issues.
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