Annual Country Report 2018: Cuba. Country Strategic Plan 2018-2019

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2018.

English

32 p.

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Throughout 2018, WFP continued to support the Government’s social protection systems for improved food security and nutrition among the most vulnerable groups by providing food assistance and capacity strengthening activities. For the first time, WFP assisted elderly people with specialised nutritious foods, in addition to its traditional support. WFP advanced in strengthening local agricultural value chains to ensure timely, adequate and sustainable food supply to social safety systems. By equipping smallholder farmers with agricultural tools, delivering training and promoting innovative practices, WFP fostered the efficiency of these value chains. WFP also continued to strengthen gender equality among smallholder farmer cooperative members and supported initiatives for women’s economic empowerment in selected provinces. WFP also supported the Government in developing and adopting different methodologies to enhance community resilience and disaster risk management by using innovative tools to include indicators to measure the vulnerability of local food production in risk assessments as well as strengthening the drought early warning system.

Electronic ed.

ELR 1816

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