Annual Country Report 2022: Cuba. Country Strategic Plan 2021-2024

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2022.

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In 2022, Cuba made great efforts to recover from the impacts of the pandemic, extreme weather events, high dependence on food imports and limited access to diverse, good-quality and safe foods, severely affecting the domestic economy and households’ livelihoods. As a result, in 2022 the economy saw a slight recovery with a 2 percent increase after the abrupt 11 percent drop in Gross Domestic Product in 2020. However, the decrease in domestic production and imports significantly contracted food availability in the country, further aggravated by the impact of Hurricane Ian at the end of September. Given the challenging context, WFP scaled up its assistance, reaching 789,068 beneficiaries (56 percent women), 10 percent more compared to 2021. WFP strengthened the school feeding programme as a platform to reinforce nutrition-sensitive activities and catalyse the local economy. WFP delivered 3,412 mt of food commodities to educational centres, two times more than the quantity provided in 2021, despite the increasing global food prices. The total food procured from agricultural cooperatives was USD 135,471. However, agricultural cooperatives' participation in public programmes was limited and WFP will continue supporting the purchase from smallholder farmers in 2023. WFP strengthened disaster risk management and developed a new microinsurance product for smallholder farmers to be launched in 2023. In coordination with the Ministry of Environment and the National Civil Defence, WFP strengthened national and local capacities to manage extreme weather events such as droughts, hurricanes and earthquakes. Furthermore, WFP provided emergency assistance after the impact of Hurricane Ian, delivering in-kind assistance to 509,541 beneficiaries (58 percent women). Additionally, WFP prepositioned stocks of food and non-food items to provide emergency assistance quickly.

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