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  • Publication | 2022

Food Systems Profile - Belize

Global Food and Nutrition Security

Proposed systemic levers for the sustainable and inclusive transformation of food systems in Belize:

  1. providing nutrition education through community health initiatives, including in schools;

  2. promoting local products linked to better nutrition;

  3. creating public policy incentives to foster the development of entrepreneurs and microenterprises. Supporting regulations and financial measures that assist rural residents, farmers and non-farm enterprises to invest using local resources and sustainable practices;

  4. creating effective partnerships and productive linkages between the agriculture and tourism sectors, emphasizing market-driven enterprises that are inclusive and have a dynamic development path;

  5. increase development, adoption and promotion of green climate technologies and adopt and enforce waste management regulations;

  6. encourage adoption and implementation of environmental, climate-smart and sustainable development policies in the context of a circular economy;

  7. targeted educational and capacity development for young people and women, including facilitating enterprise start-up financing;

  8. empowerment and governance of cooperatives.