Presentación realizada en la VIII Reunión del Grupo de Trabajo 2025 de la Iniciativa América Latina y Caribe sin Hambre, que tuvo lugar entre el 30 y 31 de julio en México. http://www.rlc.fao.org/es/iniciativa/seguimiento/gt2025/viii-reunion-del-gt2025/

1. Post 2015 Development Agenda
and Food and Nutrition Security
Jamaica

2. Strategic Alliances with FAO
• The Food and Nutrition Security Policy and
Action Plan was developed with FAO’s
assistance.
• The Policy was approved as a White Paper on
1st
May 2013 by the Cabinet ; Then it was
Tabled in the Houses of Parliament on 8th
May
2013 as a White Paper

3. Strategic Alliances with FAO
• Key players in the process of strengthening and implementing
food security as a political priority (MULTISECTORAL):
– The Planning Institute of Jamaica
– The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
– The Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce
– The Ministry of Labour and Social Security
– The Ministry of Education
– The Ministry of Health
• All supported by Parliament and Cabinet

4. Preparation of FNS Action Plan cont’d
• The process is in line with the Right to Food
provisions of the Food and Nutrition Security
Policy which promote widespread
participation and inclusiveness. (PANTHER)
• The NFNSAP focuses on actions that will
benefit all households with special emphasis
on small, poor producers, youth, women and
consumers

5. Governments' Commitment
• The Government has proposed to enact the
FOOD SECURITY LAW to ensure that
institutions of the State through their
procurement programme utilise minimum
levels of locally produced foods.
• Food and Nutrition Security has been
embedded in the Social Protection Strategy as
a priority

6. National Efforts supported by Regional
Cooperation
• Strengthening the School Feeding
Programmes, under the Hunger Free Latin
America and the Caribbean initiative: The
Brazilian Experience
• Petrocaribe Poverty and Hunger Eradication
Plan: Venezuela Government

7. Strengthening the School Feeding Programmes, under
the Hunger Free Latin America and the Caribbean
initiative: The Brazilian Experience
• Support will be provided to Jamaica’s School Feeding
Programme under the HFLACI with cooperation from
the Brazilian Government
• Jamaica will benefit from a semi face to face
experiential training to be conducted by Brazilian
Experts in the School Feeding Programme during the
period of September to December 2014: aimed at
strengthening Jamaica’s national school feeding
programme in context of social development

8. Petrocaribe Poverty and Hunger Eradication
Plan: Venezuela Government
• As part of the initiative to eliminate hunger and
extreme poverty in the region, the Venezuelan
Government is seeking to promote a programme in
Petrocaribe countries with support from the FAO.
• Jamaica submitted for the following areas:
I. Food and Nutrition Security Initiative
II. Poverty Reduction and Nutrition for the most
Vulnerable: The School Feeding Programme.

9. Post 2015 Development Agenda: Jamaica’s Progress
• As part of the preparation for the Post 2015 Development process,
the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) embarked on the preparation of
a National Outcome Document outlining the country’s priority
areas to be included in the post-2015 development agenda
• An Inter-ministerial Committee has been established to prepare
Jamaica’s National Outcome Document which will outline the
country’s priority areas.
• It was agreed that for the Agricultural Sector, focus area #2 should
be Food and Nutrition Security through sustainable agriculture
and improved food systems.

10. Post 2015 Development Agenda: Jamaica’s
Progress cont’d
The following goals that were selected for focus area 2 on Food and
Nutrition Security was largely influenced by the Food and
Nutrition Security Policy.
• Goal # 1: Promote the sustainable production of safe, affordable,
nutritious, good quality Jamaican food commodities/products;
• Goal # 2: Promote nutritionally adequate, safe, affordable dietary
intakes and other positive lifestyle behaviours throughout the life
course; and
• Goal # 3 : Improve the food and nutrition security resilience of the
national community to natural and socio-economic shocks and
climate change

11. Post 2015 Development Agenda: Jamaica’s
Progress cont’d
• Goal # 4: To increase security of tenure by
accelerating land titling programmes and
regularization of informal settlements

12. Post 2015 Development Agenda: Jamaica’s
Progress cont’d
Priority Issues: The following priority issues were
identified during the consultation.
• ensuring year-round access by all to affordable,
adequate, safe and nutritious food;
• ending child malnutrition and stunting;
• increasing agricultural productivity, including through
adequate irrigation, seeds and fertilisers, while in parallel
halting and reversing land degradation, drought and
desertification

13. Post 2015 Development Agenda: Jamaica’s
Progress cont’d
Priority Issues:
• invest in water resources development,
conservation and management to improving
improve the efficiency of water use in
agriculture;
• eliminating use of toxic chemicals;
• enhancing all forms of agricultural biodiversity

14. Post 2015 Development Agenda: Jamaica’s
Progress cont’d
Priority Issues:
• promoting indigenous and sustainable farming and
fishing practices;
• Strengthening of production and productivity
programmes for improved domestic food crop
• assessment of impacts of climate change on the
agriculture sector and sub-sectors to inform the
selection of mechanisms to strengthen the resilience of
farming systems and food supplies to climate change;

15. Post 2015 Development Agenda: Jamaica’s
Progress cont’d
Priority Issues:
• enhancing adherence to internationally
recognized guidelines on the responsible
governance of tenure of land, fisheries and
forests, including full consultation with local
communities;
• improved access to credit and other financial
services, land tenure, and agricultural extension
services, for all, including smallholders, women,
indigenous peoples and local communities;

16. Post 2015 Development Agenda: Jamaica’s
Progress cont’d
Priority Issues:
• increased investment and support to research
and development on sustainable agricultural
technologies;
•
• reducing post-harvest crop losses and food
waste along food supply chains;

17. Post 2015 Development Agenda: Jamaica’s
Progress cont’d
Priority Issues:
• strengthening of agricultural linkages to
supply chains
• addressing harmful agricultural subsidies;
• addressing price volatility, including through
market information and oversight on
commodity markets; and

18. Post 2015 Development Agenda: Jamaica’s
Progress cont’d
Priority Issues:
• Strengthening of institutional mechanisms
and technical capacities to advance climate
change adaptation and disaster risk
management in the agricultural sector and
• appropriate means of implementation.

19. The End