FAO in Jamaica, Bahamas and Belize

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15 July 2019
During a one-day meeting organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), stakeholders identified national needs within the framework of the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development. This process was a first step in allowing FAO to formulate its Regional Initiatives for the next biennium 2020-2021 and...
03 July 2019
Minister Audley Shaw endorses Jamaica’s new national committee on Agriculture Disaster Risk Management.   Jamaica re-establishes a National Agriculture Disaster Risk Management Committee to further activities in promoting disaster risk and climate change adaptation measures in Jamaica’s Agriculture sector. Over thirty agriculture stakeholders from government entities, non-governmental organizations and other development partners were...
24 June 2019
The 41st FAO Conference has elected China's Qu Dongyu as the agency's next leader
18 June 2019
Celebrating Sustainable Gastronomy Day! Learn more...
17 June 2019
The FAO Sub-Regional Office for the Caribbean welcomes its new Coordinator, Dr Renata Clarke. Dr Clarke has worked at the FAO Headquarters in the area of food safety for the past 20 years, and since 2011, she was Head of FAO Food Safety and Quality Unit.  While at FAO-HQ, she has...