Strategic Framework 2022-31

19/07/2021

Since 2010 all of FAO’s work is guided by a Strategic Framework prepared for a period of ten to fifteen years, reviewed every four years. The Strategic Framework 2022-2031 has been developed in the context of major global and regional challenges in the areas of FAO's mandate, including the COVID-19 pandemic.

Key elements for gender mainstreaming in FAO projects

07/07/2021

The guide Step it up with Equality provides a set of questions, answers, means, and tools for FAO staff and partners to mainstream gender issues as part of the shared commitment to gender equality and women's empowerment, in light of the major United Nations goals for human development and social justice. The guide focuses on each phase of the project cycle, defining the steps and tools to facilitate gender mainstreaming. It also includes a gender mainstreaming checklist, an FAO catalogue of literature and tools on gender, a mechanism for systematizing good practices, and a portfolio of actions and examples on gender mainstreaming.

The impact of the Chilean law on food labelling on the food production sector

02/07/2021

The worrying increase in overweight and obesity in the Region has led the countries to develop regulations and public policies to overcome this problem.Many of these aim to transform food environments to be healthier, improving access and influencing people's behavior, discouraging the purchase and consumption of unhealthy foods.

Indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants and climate change in Latin America – Ten scalable experiences of intercultural collaboration

01/07/2021

This publication presents ten scalable intercultural collaboration experiences that demonstrate the importance, efficiency and effectiveness of working hand in hand with men, women and youth of indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean in the search for practical solutions developed from the synergy between ancestral knowledge and scientific and technological innovation.

Dry Corridor in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras

21/06/2021

This publication addresses the main problems in the Dry Corridor, a strip of territory classified as tropical dry forest or dry tropic, which extends between the countries of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. In the Dry Corridor, there are more than 10 million people who are mainly engaged in agricultural activities.

Wholesale markets: Action against COVID-19 Bulletin N° 6

15/06/2021

The United Nations declared 2021 as the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables. In this context, FAO and FLAMA are publishing the 6th edition of the bulletin Wholesale Markets, which focuses on analyzing the role of markets in promoting access to fresh, nutritious, and reasonably priced food.

FAO Policy on Gender Equality 2020–2030

01/06/2021

Gender equality is essential to achieve FAO’s mandate of a world free from hunger, malnutrition, and poverty. The Organization recognizes that persisting inequalities between women and men are a major obstacle to agriculture and rural development and that eliminating these disparities is essential to building sustainable and inclusive food systems and resilient and peaceful societies.