`These initiatives have had limited, if any, success, however, because they have been prepared and executed in isolation from other policies. Actions taken have thus been sparse, diffuse… and uncoordinated. Moreover, few of them have been translated into operational instruments with regional core funding for concrete action programmes specifically addressing the unifying and cross-cutting synergistic issue of food and nutrition security’ A new food and nutrition policy for the region aims to be “practical” and faced with similar policies whose implementation was stunted; officials say that this one will be different