Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations

LARC/06/REP

REPORT

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

Caracas, Venezuela
24 to 28 April 2006

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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
Twenty-ningth	Caracas, Venezuela, 24-28 April 2006

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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 Independent Chairperson of the Council

Statement of the First Lady of Paraguay

SUMMARY OF DELIBERATIONS

Matters arising from the 33rd Session of the FAO Conference FAO Reform. Part I: The Director-General’s revised proposals. Part II: A vision for the twenty-first century

Report on FAO activities (2004-2005) with a focus on the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and action taken on the recommendations of the 28th FAO Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean

Latin America and the Caribbean without Hunger 2025: Inputs for a framework of action

Strengthening regional capacity for the prevention and control of Avian Influenza in Latin America and the Caribbean

Reports of the regional commissions

Round Table “Towards a regional agricultural common market: problems and perspectives”

Round Table “Institutional challenges for national, subregional and regional technological innovation”

REPORT OF THE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE

Opening of the Technical Committee meeting

Election of the Technical Committee Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson and appointment of the Rapporteur and Drafting Committee

Adoption of Technical Committee agenda and timetable

Territorial policies for the economic and social development of rural areas

Food safety and animal and plant health: trends and challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean

Trends and challenges in agriculture, forestry, fisheries and food security in Latin America and the Caribbean

Report of the outcome of the International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development

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 OF THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL

APPENDIX B - STATEMENT OF THE INDEPENDENT CHAIRPERSON OF THE COUNCIL

APPENDIX C - AGENDA OF THE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE AND THE PLENARY SESSION

APPENDIX D - LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

APPENDIX E - LIST OF DOCUMENTS

APPENDIX F - PROPOSAL OF BOLIVIA, BRAZIL, GUATEMALA AND VENEZUELA ON THE PROCEDURE FOR INITIATIVES AGAINST HUNGER IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Proposal of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

APPENDIX G - “LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN WITHOUT HUNGER 2025" INITIATIVE: IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY

Latin America and the Caribbean without Hunger 2025: Inputs for a framework of action