Strategic plan for a sustainable, adequate and healthy diet in schoolchildren in R emedios, Cuba

Abstract

The study consists of a plan proposed by the University of Remedios, Cuba, to improve the nutritional level of children and young people in the semi-internships of the municipality, to guarantee the variety and sustainability of agricultural products on the table, as well as their consumption. Thanks to this strong educational work, we contributed to improving the nutritional level of the students; For this, the 17 semi-internal centers of the territory and the four farms that guarantee these products in the educational centers were taken as a sample, they belong to the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP). For the design of the strategic plan, investigative methods were applied, among are observation, survey, interview, and logical history that served to make the initial diagnosis and verify the final results. The work as a whole reveals a sustainable contribution of agricultural products on the table of schoolchildren, achieving a high nutritional level in children, adolescents, and young people of these educational centers with these characteristics of semi-internships from a stable and sustainable consumption of these products since 2020 to 2022 when the strategy was applied.