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38 FAO Regional Conference for Latin America and Caribbean
18 to 21 march, 2024, Georgetown, Guyana
Stories
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
7/ 8
2024
8/8
2024
Second Regional Technical Dialogue on Amazonian Bioeconomy and Inclusive Rural Transformation
Belém (Brazil), 07/08/2024 - 08/08/2024
A year after the signing of the Belém Declaration (2023), the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO), in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), is organizing the technical event titled, “Second Regional Dialogue on Amazonian Bioeconomy and Inclusive Rural Transformation.” This event will take place in the city of Belém, state ...
1/ 8
2024
Challenges and opportunities of the One Health approach, from the agri-food system Session 1: Dialogue - Intersectoral approaches for One Health
Virtual Event, 01/08/2024
FAO promotes the application of the One Health approach as part of the transformation of the agri-food system for the benefit of human, animal, plant and environmental health. This involves a wide range of actors and work related to sustainable agriculture, animal, plant, forest and aquaculture health, food safety, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), nutrition and livelihoods.
30/ 7
2024
Launching of the Program to Accelerate the Empowerment of Rural Women and Environmental Sustainability
Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), Hybrid Event, 30/07/2024
In the region, women are disproportionately affected by poverty and food and nutrition insecurity. According to an analysis carried out by the UNDP in 10 Latin American countries, multidimensional poverty affects 18.8% of urban women, a percentage that is almost three times higher in the case of rural women (58%). A situation that is directly related to the gender gap in food and nutri...
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.
Forest governance by indigenous and tribal peoples. An opportunity for climate action in Latin America and the Caribbean
2023
The document summarizes the report that, based on a review of more than 250 studies, demonstrates the importance and urgency of climate action to protect the forests of the indigenous and tribal territories of Latin America as well as the indigenous and tribal peoples who protect them.
Regional Initiatives
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 SDGs
24/11/2022
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...