lima, 4 Apr (EFE).-the United Nations food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) promotes Peru a security law food that dowry of continuity to its programmes in the country, said today his director-general, José Graziano da Silva.
After meeting in Lima with Peruvian President, Ollanta Humala, Graziano said in a press conference that “FAO is collaborating with Peru in drafting a law on food security and the Constitution of a parliamentary front that can articulate and push this law”.
According to the director of the FAO, the rule will enable programmes of food assistance, such as the of school canteens in Peru, State programs and continue when there is change of Government.
Graziano indicated that FAO is working in Peru in a series of assistance programmes to fishing, the producer organisations in the jungle and in the recovery of traditional products.
Also commented that this agency “is trying to incorporate the Peruvian diet a recipe of indigenous products and culinary traditional”.
Graziano met with the head of State and the Minister of agriculture, Luis Ginocchio, in the Government Palace.
During his visit to Lima is scheduled to sign an agreement of cooperation between FAO and the world food programme, which seeks to increase the agricultural production with the improvement of native seeds and the promotion of small producers. EFE
