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Learn about the FAO Strategic Framework 2022-2031
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38 FAO Regional Conference for Latin America and Caribbean
18 to 21 march, 2024, Georgetown, Guyana
Stories
Cocoa’s revival on the tropical island of Saint Lucia
Support for farmers helps revitalize the cocoa industry and incomes
Preventing global plant health threats with help from across the ocean
Supporting countries’ preparedness in halting destructive Banana Fusarium fungus
The place of agriculture in peace
Lasting results in rural development empower conflict survivors in Colombia
Thinking outside the fish tank
Five innovative tools and techniques that the FISH4ACP project set afloat to boost global aquatic food systems
Alternative Livestock Feed Project to prioritize locally sourced ingredients
Alternative feed solutions are being sourced to drive sustainability in the livestock sector
Healing Chile’s Huapi island
How Indigenous Peoples are restoring native forests for climate resilience
The awakening for Cuban farms
FAO-Green Climate Fund project eradicates invasive weed to restore farms and landscapes, building climate resilience and transforming lives
Traditional agrifood systems conserve biodiversity and support nutrition in Mexico
Reviving and marketing ancestral agricultural food production practices
Potato’s travel through ages and continents
Celebrating potatoes as part of global diets and agricultural heritage
Sacred plant helps forge a climate-friendly future in Paraguay
Using ancestral knowledge and growing yerba mate trees to accelerate climate action
Safe water saves water
How new Codex Alimentarius guidelines can boost water conservation
The hands behind a cup of coffee in Panama
Sustainable coffee production techniques build on Indigenous Peoples’ traditional knowledge
Events
16/ 10
2024
Agrovisiones : Webinar series on innovation for agrifood transformation - Chapter 7: Pablo Caputi
Virtual Event, 16/10/2024
Agrovisiones is a webinar program organized by FAO with the purpose of exposing voices and awakening visions that expand and transcend the Zero Hunger development goal.
15/ 10
2024
18/10
2024
Regional workshop on Public Forestry Expenditure
Hybrid Event, 15/10/2024 - 18/10/2024
During its 33rd session in June 2023, the Latin American and Caribbean Forestry Commission (LACFC) "recommended that FAO support the development of methodologies for analysing forest-related public and private domestic resource flows".
8/ 10
2024
Five Years of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming: Lessons Learned and Pending Challenges from Latin America and the Caribbean
Virtual Event, 08/10/2024
In 2019, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (UNDFF) 2019-2028, recognizing the crucial importance of family farming in eradicating hunger, reducing poverty, and promoting sustainable food systems. Five years after this proclamation, it is time to reflect on the progress made, the challenges that persist, and the future opportunities to str...
Regional Representative
Regional Representative
Mr. Mario Lubetkin has been Assistant Director General and FAO Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean since 1 August, 2022.
Key Documents
Publications
2030 Food, agriculture and rural development in Latin America and the Caribbean
2023
Within the context of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), undertook a process of reflection on the future of agriculture, food systems and rural areas of Latin America and the Caribbean. It was a dialogue that involved a hundred experts from a score of nationalities, from academia, research centers, international organizations, other UN agencies, and the FAO itself.
FAO's four priorities in Latin America and the Caribbean
In depth
We are all connected
how our health is linked to that of animals, plants and the environment.
FAO Campus
Courses of self-study, semi face-to-face and virtual with tutor.
Central American Dry Corridor
Stories and facts about this "land of opportunities" in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
Parliamentary front against hunger
More than 400 legislators work with FAO, the Spanish Cooperation and AMEXCID
1000 Digital Villages in Latin America and the Caribbean Initiative
Rural tourism experiences and digitization in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Global
Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)
Discover the systems in Latin America globally recognized as agricultural heritage.
One Country One Priority Product
Global action on green development.
World Food Day
Water is life, water is food. October 16, 2023. Leave no one behind.
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Gender Equality
Empowering women in food and agriculture.
Global School Feeding Platform
Technical resources for experts and practitioners.
Data on food and agriculture
Free access to data from more than 245 countries.
Multimedia
FAO Brief - 20 May 2024
20/05/2024
In this episode, 1.8 million people in Honduras experience high levels of acute food insecurity, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification or IPC; FAO’s Director-General urges peace and digitalization to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in the Regional Conference for...