FAO organized a seminar on the use of biofertilizers in Brazil, Chile, Peru, and the Caribbean.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) invites all organizations linked to family farming to submit proposals for meetings that promote the exchange of experiences and knowledge, and actively participate in the Regional Technica

Participants met with local government authorities and those responsible for school feeding from different sectors.

Training is intended for veterinarians and veterinary paraprofessionals involved in diagnosing, investigating and responding to an outbreak of ASF.

The report warns that poverty is a brake on food consumption in the region, and highlights that by 2031, the region will account for 18 percent of global food exports.

New UN report says that 56.5 million people suffered hunger in 2021, while 268 million faced food insecurity.

To date, the course has allowed the participants to produce eight videos highlighting the variety of products and services offered by the rural tourism projects that are part of the 1000 Digital Villages Initiative in the region.

FAO’ Regional Representative and the CGIAR Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean met in Santiago de Chile.

During the international meeting of the Healthy Life course, Colombia, Guatemala, Peru and the Dominican Republic presented the changes and adaptations in their school feeding programmes.

Representatives from more than 10 countries of RAES discussed the future of the Network, its objectives and next steps.

Initially, 240 Ecuadorian instructors will receive training in digital skills, who will then pass on their knowledge to many more people, thus expanding the reach of the programme. They are expected to teach more than 1 800 people in the next three months

The communicator, of Uruguayan nationality, has served as Deputy Director General of the FAO since 2017.

The needs of vulnerable populations are reflected in FAO's emergency plan aimed at improving the production and quality of basic foodstuffs and market gardening, protecting livestock, and restoring animal production, fishermen livelihoods and to improve

Final event of the 3rd version of the course will discuss the role of regulatory frameworks in the school feeding policy

Training from the Brazil-FAO International Cooperation was offered to participants from Colombia, Guatemala, Peru, and the Dominican Republic.

Regional Dialogue of the Sustainable School Feeding Network with LAC will be held in Brasilia and will be broadcast virtually with interpretation in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

The delegation will be composed of representatives from 10 countries that will arrive in Brasilia on the 29th.

Over the course of a week, delegations from 10 countries received information on regulatory frameworks, and policy implementation, and visited public schools and local family farmers’ production areas.

With the participation of 10 countries and international institutions, the regional technical committee of the RAES Network was officialized.

With the support of the trilateral South-South cooperation programme between Brazil and FAO, the second cycle of exchanges will continue to discuss successful experiences that can be replicated in the region.