Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations

LARC/04/REP

REPORT

Twenty-eighth
FAO Regional Conference
for Latin America and
the Caribbean

Guatemala City, Guatemala
26 to 30 April 2004

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FAO Member Nations serviced by the Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (as of 26 April 2004)

Antigua and Barbuda	Dominican Republic	Paraguay
Argentina	Ecuador	Peru
Bahamas	El Salvador	Saint Kitts and Nevis
Barbados	Grenada	Saint Lucia
Belize	Guatemala	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Bolivia	Guyana	Suriname
Brazil	Haiti	Trinidad and Tobago
Colombia	Honduras	Uruguay
Costa Rica	Jamaica	Venezuela
Cuba	Mexico	Paraguay
Chile	Nicaragua	Peru
Dominica	Panama	Saint Kitts and Nevis

Date and place of FAO Regional Conferences for Latin America and the Caribbean

First	Quito, Ecuador, 18-25 September 1949
Second	Montevideo, Uruguay, 1-12 December 1950
Third	Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1-10 September 1954
Fourth	Santiago, Chile, 19-30 November 1956
Fifth	San José, Costa Rica, 12-21 November 1958
Sixth	Mexico City, Mexico, 9-20 August 1960
Seventh	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 17-27 November 1962
Eighth	Viña del Mar, Chile, 13-29 March 1965
Ninth	Punta del Este, Uruguay, 5-16 December 1966
Tenth	Kingston, Jamaica, 2-13 December 1968
Eleventh	Caracas, Venezuela, 12-20 October 1970
Twelfth	Cali, Colombia, 21 August - 2 September 1972
Thirteenth	Panama City, Panama, 12-23 August 1974
Fourteenth	Lima, Peru, 21-29 April 1976
Fifteenth	Montevideo, Uruguay, 8-19 August 1978
Sixteenth	Havana, Cuba, 26 August - 6 September 1980
Seventeenth	Managua, Nicaragua, 20 August - 10 September 1982
Eighteenth	Buenos Aires, Argentina, 6-15 August 1984
Nineteenth	Bridgetown, Barbados, 5-13 August 1986
Twentieth	Recife, Brazil, 2-7 October 1988
Twenty-first	Santiago, Chile, 9-13 July 1990
Twenty-second	Montevideo, Uruguay, 28 September - 2 October 1992
Twenty-third	San Salvador, El Salvador, 29 August - 2 September 1994
Twenty-fourth	Asunción, Paraguay, 2-6 July 1996
Twenty-fifth	Nassau, Bahamas, 16-20 June 1998
Twenty-sixth	Merida, Mexico, 10-14 April 2000
Twenty-seventh	Havana, Cuba, 22-26 April 2002
Twenty-eighth	Guatemala City, Guatemala, 26-30 April 2004

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SUMMARY OF THE MAIN CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

INTRODUCTORY ITEMS

Organization of the Conference

Inaugural Ceremony

Election of Chairperson and Vice-Chairpersons and appointment of Rapporteur

Adoption of agenda and timetable

Statement by the Director-General

SUMMARY OF DELIBERATIONS

FAO activities (2002–2003), trends and challenges in agriculture, forestry, fisheries and food security in the Region and actions taken on the main recommendations of the 27th FAO Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean

Follow-up to the World Food Summit and the World Food Summit: five years later. Regional dimensions

Initiative to review and update national strategies and policies for agriculture, rural development and food security

Reports of the Regional Commissions

REPORT OF THE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE

Opening of the Technical Committee meeting

Election of Technical Committee Chairperson and Vice-Chairpersons and appointment of Rapporteur

Adoption of Technical Committee agenda and timetable

Food security as rural development strategy

Economic and social development as a basis for the implementation of FAO actions in Latin America and the Caribbean

International Year of Rice 2004

FAO strategic framework for bridging the rural digital divide

Adoption of the Technical Committee report

Closure of the Technical Committee meeting

FINAL ITEMS

Date, place and agenda of the Twenty-ninth FAO Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean

Other matters

Adoption of the report

Closure of the Conference

APPENDIXES

APPENDIX A - STATEMENT BY THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL

APPENDIX B

AGENDA OF THE TECHNICAL COMMITEE

AGENDA OF THE PLENARY SESSION

APPENDIX C - LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

APPENDIX D - LIST OF DOCUMENTS