The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) published on Monday a humanitarian response plan for Venezuelawith which it seeks to help 175,000 people through small-scale food production and the intake of “healthy diets” in schools.
To comply with this roadmap, 12.75 million dollars are required, an amount that FAO hopes to capture through international donors.
The plan contemplates school feeding programs and family farming, providing technical support for the mitigation of damage to crops related to natural disasters, the promotion and assistance of small-scale planting, among other aids.
“Humanitarian assistance to support agricultural livelihoods is essential to respond to food security needs”underlines the document, which exposes data such as inflation in Venezuela, which has increased by 96.3% between January and May of this year, or the minimum salary set by the Executive, of 130 bolivars a month -currently equivalent to about 5 dollars-, which millions of people receive.
In 2022, FAO helped some 50,000 people through the “healthy school nutrition” and “programs linked to local family farming”add the plan.
The UN received, last year, 309.6 million dollars for humanitarian aid in Venezuela, which represents the 38.9% of the funds that it required in 2022, calculated at some 795 million dollars, an amount with which assistance programs were financed for 2.8 million people with urgent needs.
Source: Gestion
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