FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean

Publications

26/04/2021

The Guidelines for Production Of Seed Rhizome in Shadehouse Facility under a Certification Programme in Jamaica describes the processes involved in the production of disease-free healthy seed rhizomes utilizing tissue culture sources of planting material and the single bud technology for ginger production in Jamaica.

20/04/2021

In this report, FAO illustrates the progress in fulfilling the mandate given to us by the Member Countries. The results included in this document are important, but partial, examples of our work.

16/04/2021

Digital technologies are slowly spreading in agriculture sectors globally. But their adoption is hampered by the digital divide which requires significant public investments, improved policy and incentive frameworks to be bridged. Only after that, digital transformation will take place at scale.

16/04/2021

Through support from the FAO-EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Programme, the Organization Asociación Balam has connected local carpenters to legal timber producers in the northern Guatemalan department of Petén by building and strengthening cooperatives.

16/04/2021

This case study from Chile applies state-of-the-art monitoring approaches to forest conservation, restoration and managment. It offers a glimpse into Chile's efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and enhancement on forest carbon stocks (REDD+).

31/03/2021

There is increasing awareness of the need for, and a growing movement to apply, the ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF) and develop sustainable linkages between climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk management (DRM). Fisheries learning exchanges (FLEs) can be useful for enhancing fisheries management that is guided by these concepts. In the Caribbean there exists little guidance on FLEs that focus on the concepts of EAF, CCA and DRM.

25/03/2021

The document summarizes the report that, based on a review of more than 250 studies, demonstrates the importance and urgency of climate action to protect the forests of the indigenous and tribal territories of Latin America as well as the indigenous and tribal peoples who protect them. These territories contain about a third of the continent's forests. That's 14% of the carbon stored in tropical forests around the world; These territories are also home to an enormous diversity of wild fauna and flora and play a key role in stabilizing the local and regional climate.

Boletín de publicaciones 2023 ( In Spanish)
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Mariela Ramírez

Publications Unit Coordinator