The Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise and the Mexican Embassy
through AMEXCID formally launched
“A SYTEMATIZATION REPORT OF THE MESOAMERICA HUNGER FREE
SCHOOL FEEDING PROJECT IN THE TOLEDO DISTRICT”
BASED ON THE PROJECT TITLED:
“Improve Food and Nutrition Security and Encourage Healthy Eating Habits in Belize
through Strengthening of the School Feeding Programs” (GCP/SLM/001/MEX)
OFFICIAL RESIDENCE, EMBASSY OF MEXICO IN BELIZE
CITY OF BELMOPAN

Thursday JUNE 3RD, 2021

The Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise in collaboration of the Government of
Mexico through the Mexican International Development Cooperation Agency (AMEXCID) today
handed over a systematization report of the Mesoamerica Hunger Free School Feeding Program
Project implemented in the Toledo District.

Since 2015, Mesoamerican countries, including one from the Caribbean, embarked on the
Mesoamerica Without Hunger Initiative. The initiative is a program of cooperation between
countries in the South-South region that contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals. With
aid from the Government of Mexico through AMEXCID and with technical support from the Food
and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Additionally, it seeks to strengthen institutional frameworks
for achieving Food and Nutrition Security and individualized attention to family farming.
Through this initiative, Belize’s pilot project developed the Sustainable School Feeding Program
(SFP) in four communities in the Toledo District.

Belize is determined to strengthen its governance mechanisms for designing, implementing and
monitoring its programs and public policies for food and nutrition security. In this regard, SFPs
based on the experience of Latin America and the Caribbean is one of the cornerstone strategies
that can be adopted to achieve social justice with instruments that contribute to different
dimensions of development and the realization of rights.

Present at the event were Hon. Jose Abelardo Mai, Minister of Agriculture; Hon. Francis Fonseca,
Minister of Education; Hon. Ramon Cervantes, Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs; H.E Martha Zamarripa, Ambassador of Mexico in Belize; Dr. Israel Rios, FAO Regional
Representative.