Ouagadougou: The Permanent Secretary (SP) of the presidential initiative, Dr Alice Gisèle Sidibé/Anago indicated on Wednesday that the success of the presidential initiative ‘ensures each child of school age at least one balanced meal per day”, begins first with quantitative agricultural production.
‘The presidential initiative to ‘ensure every child of school age at least one balanced meal per day’ is focused on sufficient agricultural production. This explains all the actions launched by the authorities to achieve food self-sufficiency in Burkina Faso,’ indicated Wednesday, June 12, 2024, Dr. Alice Gisèle Sidibé/Anago, during the first ordinary session of the current year of the technical consultation framework of the presidential initiative.
According to the SP, the handover of a large batch of equipment to farmers by the authorities as part of the 2023-2025 agricultural offensive ultimately aims for the country’s food sovereignty, a sine qua non condition for the success of the initiative. .
For her, t
his policy, which benefits from the synergy of actions of more than 14 ministries and institutions, aims to improve the food and nutritional situation among school-age children as well as the income of vulnerable households.
According to Dr Alice Gisèle Sidibé/Anago, the initiative also intends to improve the availability of food and the supply of school canteens as well as governance.
While welcoming the support of technical and financial partners, the permanent secretary, Dr Sidibé also noted the endogenous nature of the presidential initiative.
She wanted to be more explicit by adding that through this policy, it is a question of developing actions with the country’s own means to ensure daily meals for Burkinabè children of school age, in the meantime support from partners
Source: Burkina Information Agency