The population of the Bluefields region in Nicaragua is particularly affected by malnutrition due to poverty and lack of dietary diversity. The "Food Security and Agroecology" program aims to help communities adapt to their environment and the consequences of climate change to meet their basic needs with the objective  of ensuring that families have sufficient, varied, and good quality food by disseminating agroecology practices.

 

Agroecology is a people-led movement that represents an alternative food and farming paradigm, rooted in healing the relationship between agriculture, the environment, food systems, and society, redesigning agricultural systems in ways that amplifies biodiversity and strengthens relationships between different plants and species, including human beings, as part of holistic strategies to build long-term healthy agro-ecosystems and secure livelihoods. Families and communities are placed at the center of food system governance, and agroecology has proven positive impacts in climate change adaptation, soil regeneration, and combating the biodiversity crisis in vulnerable regions like Latin America and the Caribbean while also positively impacting emotional health and increasing self-confidence, which is an objective this program aims to address.