FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean

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The 1st Regional Conference for the Sustainable Transformation of Livestock in Latin America and the Caribbean, organized by FAO alongside the Government of Uruguay and Uruguay’s National Meat Institute, took place this week. But why is this topic relevant to the region? Improved production, better nutrition, environmental protection, and impacting people’s livelihoods without leaving anyone behind stand out among the most important reasons

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FAO highlighted food systems as strategic in addressing climate challenges and marine and terrestrial biodiversity. The Latin America and Caribbean office emphasized the importance of climate financing, the One Health approach, pollinators, the bioeconomy, protected areas, and restoration to achieve these goals

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Uruguay hosts the meeting to address the challenges facing the livestock sector in Latin America and the Caribbean. At the conference, FAO called for a balanced approach between economic development, agricultural sustainability, and environmental preservation within the sector

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Advancing nature conservation through food production and consumption was a key discussion topic on the COP16 agenda: Biodiversity and Agrifood Systems, caring for our present to cultivate a future for all. FAO, in partnership with the CBD and the Ministries of Agriculture and Environment of Colombia, opened a space to review the progress made in food and agriculture towards the goals of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

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Integrating biodiversity into agricultural production, eliminating obsolete pesticides, restoring ecosystems, reducing the impacts of climate change on fisheries, contributing to land-use planning in livestock farming, and converting thousands of hectares into protected areas are part of the work presented at the 16th Biodiversity COP

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Progress towards landmark COP15 pledges now depends on integrating agrifood systems into National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans.

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Presidents and the Prime Minister of six nations in the region presented the progress in their countries and urged the implementation of policies focused on equitable access to nutritious food

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4 Betters

Learn about the FAO Strategic Framework 2022-2031

38 FAO Regional Conference for Latin America and Caribbean

18 to 21 March, 2024, Georgetown, Guyana

Stories
Events

21/ 11

2024

Virtual Event, 21/11/2024

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.

16/ 10

2024

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

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".

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
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.


African Swine Fever

Recommendations to prevent spread.

 

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.

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
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...

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