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

Nuevo informe pronostica crecimiento de 22% para los cultivos, 16% para productos pecuarios y 12% para pescados en la próxima década. Producción de cereales se desacelerará.

South America hosts the majority of the undernourished due to the decline of food security in Venezuela, says new UN report.

Experts from Microsoft, Huawei and Telefónica, agricultural NGOs and representatives from governments and International Organizations will participate in the FAO rural innovation seminar in Uruguay.

Boyd Swinburn, professor at the University of Auckland and one of the most prominent international researchers on obesity policies, gave a seminar at FAO on ´´The role of international agencies in addressing the Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition,

El Representante Regional de la FAO realizó una charla magistral durante el lanzamiento del Decenio de la Agricultura Familiar en América Latina y el Caribe.

90 expertos participaron de esta colección que busca responder a desafíos actuales tan urgentes como la migración, los nuevos patrones alimentarios y el alza de la obesidad, el desarrollo y la pobreza rural, y la transformación de la agricultura.

Como una de las acciones de la Red de Alimentación Escolar Sostenible, promovida por Brasil con apoyo de FAO, delegaciones de los dos países conocerán el desarrollo local del programa de alimentación escolar brasileño.

FAO and the Institute of Peruvian Studies invited more than 90 experts to develop 33 documents that address the major issues affecting the region.

According to a new FAO report, The State of Food and Agriculture 2019.

In Costa Rica, ECLAC, FAO and IICA presented their most recent joint report on the agriculture and rural sectors in the Americas, during a conference that brought together the ministers of agriculture of the hemisphere.

According to the publication, obesity and hunger are growing in Latin America and the Caribbean. 600 thousand people die a year in the region due to poor diet.

The percentage of people with obesity tripled since 1975 and hunger increased 11 percent in the last four years, according to the Panorama of Food and Nutritional Security 2019.

In most countries of Central America and the Caribbean, meanwhile reduced harvests are expected due to unfavorable weather.