FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean
Meet the young agripreneurs who won’t let COVID-19 get them down

Young people are adapting their businesses to the pandemic with technology and entrepreneurial spirit
FAO launches Hand-in-Hand geospatial data platform to help build stronger food and agriculture sectors post COVID-19

One million geospatial layers and thousands of statistics for over ten food and agriculture-related domains.
FAO launches new COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme with 7 priority areas

Calls for a joint coordinated global response to support food and agriculture
UN: Hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean could rise to almost 67 million people by 2030

New report warns that the region will fail the hunger target of the Sustainable Development Goals. Hunger has risen to 47.7 million people in 2019.
State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020 (SOFI)

Report presents the most recent and authoritative estimates of the extent of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition around the world. Monday, 13 July 2020 10am New York time.