With the aim of contributing to food sovereignty and the use of local capacities, the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA) implements actions to this end in the province of Holguin, pursuant to Cuba’s goals of economic development, which includes training producers on the use of organic fertilizers and agricultural mechanization to improve yields and replace imports, one of the ongoing programs.

Urban and sustainable mobility in the capital city will be the focus today of the 1st Local Development Fair’s scientific program, supported by the presence of Cuban higher education centers in the panel University-Business-Local Development, coordinated by the Center for Managerial Technique Studies of the University of Havana (UH).

The 17th Cuba-Mexico Interparliamentary Meeting, to be held in this city on April 1 and 2, is intended to strengthen relations between the legislative bodies of both nations and contributing to the realization of bilateral cooperation projects.

The General Director for Consular Affairs and Cubans Abroad, Ernesto Soberon wrote on his Twitter account that the Cuban government keeps following concerns of Cuban citizens about Panama’s decision to impose transit visas.

An International Symposium on Gender and Energy begins today in this city with the presentation of the project Strengthening Cuban women’s leadership and participation in the Renewable Energy Sector (FORMER).

The National Center of Applied Electromagnetism (CNEA) has designed a magnetic field-based pest biocontroller to preserve crops and increase food production.

Food production, aimed at the fulfillment of the food sovereignty and nutrition education program, is top of today’s agenda at the 1st Local Development Fair one of the central themes of the third day of the first Havana 2022.

Teenage pregnancy and motherhood, hegemonic violence, academic and professional itineraries and the technological present and future of young generations will be the focus of debate this morning in the International Congress of Researchers on Childhood, Adolescence and Youth.

The protection of children and adolescents is high on version 24 of the Family Code bill, which includes affection and solidarity as new bases of relations with children.

Cuba’s state policy is in tune with continental strategies to foster food production, said the representative of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization –FAO—in Cuba Marcelo Resende in Havana during a press conference on Tuesday.

Cuban extended its appreciation to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for a donation of 19 tons of powdered milk destined to six thousand minors currently in pediatric hospitals in the western section of the country.

Aylin Alvarez Garcia, first secretary of the Young Communist League (UJC by its Spanish acronym), said today that the organization intends to advance in the creation of mechanisms to promote a more effective youth policy, for which the contributions of the International Congress of Researchers on Childhood, Adolescence and Youth will be vital.

The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) will provide financial support to Cuba for the construction of 15 MW in photovoltaic farms, informed today on Twitter Livan Arronte Cruz, Cuban minister of energy and mines (MINEM).

 An International Symposium on Gender and Energy begins today in Havana, when the project Strengthening the leadership and participation of women in Cuba in the Renewable Energy Sector (FORMER by its Spanish acronym) will be presented.

The first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and president of the country, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, considered as an honor to participate in the presentation of the Medal for Inventors, awarded by the World