The Food Ministry and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations recently held its final series of training workshops for local government representatives at the Bangladesh Agriculture Research Centre auditorium in Dhaka.
The training was aimed at enabling them to create practical nutrition and meal planning advice based on the nation’s updated dietary guidelines.
“There is not only hunger for calories but for nourishing meals. As we continue to work for zero hunger we must remember the importance of food for health and well-being,” the Assitant Representative of FAO, Nur Khondaker, said.
He added, “With a focus on nutrition security, we embrace solutions that nourish people instead of filling them with food but leaving them hungry. This training is an important step towards developing easy-to-understand and practical nutrition advice for people.”
The workshop was attended by district and divisional officials from 18 ministries and organizations working to expand nutrition education across the nation.
The “Meeting the Undernutrition Challenge” project of the FAO, which is supported by the European Union and the US Agency for International Development, and the Food Planning and Monitoring Section of the Food Ministry jointly hosted this session.
A fundamental goal of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations (FAO) is assisting the countries of the Caribbean in developing national
strategies, methods and tools to improve diets. Food-based dietary guidelines
(FBDGs) are a key source of information that governments can use for educating
the public on ways to do this.
“This training is an important step towards developing easy-to-understand and practical nutrition advice for people.”
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