Publications
Health on the table – A consumer advocacy perspective on reducing overweight and obesity in Latin America
16/08/2021
The health of global consumers has suffered greatly from the growing problem of overweight and obesity. In Latin America and the Caribbean, overweight affects 59.5 percent of adults, more than 20 percentage points above the world average, while almost a quarter of all adults are obese, well above the world average of 13.1 percent.
FAO Gender Regional Strategy for Latin America and the Caribbean 2019–2023
28/07/2021
The Gender Strategy proposes to deepen the analysis of the initiatives that achieve changes and - structural transformations - of the unequal relations, emphasizing in the monitoring of the SDGs and the indicators under the mandate of the FAO.
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.
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