By Mario Lubetkin, Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

Event brought together 10 countries and deepened the exchange on food and nutritional education.

97 professionals from the educational system completed the training process to contribute to food and nutritional security in schools throughout the country.

The agreement focuses on high-level policy and normative advocacy to accelerate the reduction of the gender gap in access to productive resources and rural coverage of care services, sexual and reproductive health, and gender-based violence.

World Cotton Day was marked by several activities in Brazil.

FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative Mario Lubetkin presented the initiative at the World Food Forum in Rome.

Joint initiative of the FNDE and the regional school feeding project of the Brazil-FAO International Cooperation began in October

With 80 million Latin American and Caribbean students benefiting and 14 years of implementation in the region, the partnership between Brazil and FAO with countries is entering a new phase.

On November 9, at 12 pm Chile/11:00 am. Washington, DC, 10:00 am Panama City, Panama, five UN agencies will present the new edition of the Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean 2023.

The Regional Overview 2023 indicates that, despite halting the upward trend in the last period, hunger levels in the region remain above the 2019 figures prior to the outbreak of COVID-19. In addition, 8.6% of children under five years of age are overweig

FAO's regional office held a technical meeting in preparation for the Ministers of Agriculture meeting in early 2024 in Chile.

The main goal is to reinforce the role of cotton production and transformation as a generator of employment and income.

2.2 million people in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua lost their crops due to rains and droughts, of which 1.4 million need food assistance urgently. FAO and WFP request US $ 72 million from the international community to provide food as

Latin America and the Caribbean is the world’s most important exporter for bananas and the four major tropical fruits – mangoes, pineapples, avocados and papayas.

Brazilian maize exports for the 2019/2020 season forecast to reach 29.5 million tonnes.

Rainwater harvesting in Jamaica and planting trees to protect Bolivia's cattle or Haitian peas are three of the practices described by a new FAO study.

With an international meeting in Rome, the United Nations launched the Decade of Family Farming, a sector that employs more than 60 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Port State Measures Agreement’s rapid adoption is a critical boon for global efforts to safeguard global marine resources and achieve food security

FAO and the the Inter-American Development Bank team-up to support

FAO Director General stresses importance of investing in the poor as the way to achieve sustainable development