FAO and CATIE: joining efforts for more sustainable forestry, landscape restoration and climate change mitigation in Latin America

FAO and the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) in Costa Rica have reaffirmed their commitment to collaborate by signing an agreement to renew their partnership.

CATIE is a key partner for FAO in Latin America and contributes to the increasing of FAO presence on the ground through delivery of joint capacity building and training and provision of high level local expertize for research studies.  FAO and CATIE’s partnership contributes to the better informed strategies, tools and methodologies to improve sustainable forest management in the context of climate change mitigation and helps to strengthen capacities at the national and regional levels to restore landscapes and halt the deforestation and related land degradation in American tropics.

Building on this well-established collaboration, both partners aim to strengthen their partnership and plan to deliver more joint activities in the Dry Corridor of Central America and will continue working together on sustainable forestry and landscape restoration projects in Latin America in line with the Sustainable Development Goals.