Bolivia Reinforces Food Security Program

The creation of a National Food Security Committee (Consa) will improve local production capacities, the state-run newspaper Cambio reported Monday.

According to the daily, Consa will be charged with drafting legislation for strengthening and ensuring the national production policy first implemented in 2008.

The deputy minister of farming and rural development, Victor Hugo Vasquez, said the new committee will oversee the coordination of actions with social organizations, international cooperation, and state institutions.

Its main tasks include promoting and ensuring that food sovereignty is recognized in future laws and activities, as well as regulating the creation and implementation of national policies and laws.

The committee will also promote the implementation of a follow-up, monitoring, evaluation, and adjustment system of programs and plans put forward by the Ministry of Development Planning.

Consa is also expected to carry out comprehensive actions to reduce and eliminate malnutrition in the framework of the right to food.

Source: Bolivia Reinforces Food Security Program – Prensa Latina

Date: 21 June 2010