According to the official statement, the initiative that will be announced on February 25, led by the Center for Research on Protein Plants (CIPB), with the support of AICS, seeks to increase food security for vulnerable populations through the sustainable supply of foods with high nutritional value.
The total funding for the project, which will last 36 months, amounts to approximately three million euros for nutrition and renewable energy.
It will focus on the development of the value chain of the moringa plant and other proteins in the municipalities of Los Palacios, Guane and Mantua, belonging to the province of Pinar del Río and in the territories of La Lisa and Playa in Havana, capital of the Caribbean nation.
“Línea Verde reaffirms the continued commitment of AICS and its partners to improve the quality of life of local communities through sustainable and resilient work through practical solutions for food and energy security, said the director of the AICS Havana headquarters, Antonio Festa.
He also pointed out that the idea intends to directly benefit more than three thousand people and strengthen the alliances of that institution with the actors of cooperation to build a more self-sufficient future in the Caribbean country.
Other entities such as the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Cuba, the Institute of Agro-Forestry Research and the Institute of Fundamental Research in Tropical Agriculture are also participating.
They are joined by the Italian NGOs CISP and ARCS Arci Culture Solidali; as well as the University of Pinar del Río, Hermanos Saiz Montes de Oca.
The Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, the European Union and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), launched at the end of 2024 another collaborative project under the name “Program for the ecological transition towards sustainable municipalities in Cuba”, which will benefit more than half a million Cubans (531,266).
This idea also aims to promote energy autonomy and agroecology from local development but this time in the municipalities of Guanabacoa, in Havana; Isla de la Juventud; Martí, in Matanzas; Manicaragua and Remedios, in Villa Clara; and Yaguajay, Trinidad and Cabaiguán, in Sancti Spíritus.
This other initiative, coordinated on the Cuban side by the Ministry of Economy and Planning and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, through its Centre for Local and Community Development, has global funding of 32.8 million Euros, provided by the European Union (31 million Euros), the AICS (1.7 million Euros) and UNDP (150 thousand Euros).
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