00:00Appearing on today's Morning Edition, Mario Lubetkin, Assistant Director General and FAO
00:07Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean, addressed the issue of
00:12food security in the region.
00:15He said that yesterday, the FAO and the government of Trinidad and Tobago signed a CPF, or Country
00:22Programming Framework, which is a four-year agreement.
00:26It includes understanding what type of policy is needed for strengthening food security.
00:32The agreement that we signed is for four years.
00:36And that is very important.
00:37Why?
00:38Because, in fact, you transform this joint document between the government and FAO like
00:45a state document.
00:47The point is, who will be in charge in the government will follow that.
00:53And this issue about continuity.
00:54And this issue to think in the middle term, it's very important for the country.
01:00Mr. Lubetkin likened food security to climate change, saying that it is not something that
01:05can be solved in a few days or weeks.
01:09Like climate change, he says this is a situation that has progressed over many years to where
01:15we are now.
01:17According to Mr. Lubetkin, the CPF agreement aims to ensure that citizens can have not
01:23just three full meals a day, but good nutrition too.
01:26To say in a most popular way, we need to guarantee that the people can take breakfast, lunch
01:33and dinner.
01:34It's so easy and so complicated at the same time.
01:38We need to guarantee for all the population that.
01:40But at the same time, we need to guarantee quality, so nutrition, of what they will eat.
01:49The challenge now, it's eat and eat well.
01:53Eat and eat well.
01:55Zoe Leidou, TV6 News.
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