Highlights
4 Betters
Learn about the FAO Strategic Framework 2022-2031
Stories
The awakening for Cuban farms
FAO-Green Climate Fund project eradicates invasive weed to restore farms and landscapes, building climate resilience and transforming lives
Traditional agrifood systems conserve biodiversity and support nutrition in Mexico
Reviving and marketing ancestral agricultural food production practices
Potato’s travel through ages and continents
Celebrating potatoes as part of global diets and agricultural heritage
Sacred plant helps forge a climate-friendly future in Paraguay
Using ancestral knowledge and growing yerba mate trees to accelerate climate action
Safe water saves water
How new Codex Alimentarius guidelines can boost water conservation
The hands behind a cup of coffee in Panama
Sustainable coffee production techniques build on Indigenous Peoples’ traditional knowledge
Events
20/ 8
2024
Launching of the Program to Accelerate the Empowerment of Rural Women and Environmental Sustainability
Virtual Event, 20/08/2024
In the region, women are disproportionately affected by poverty and food and nutrition insecurity. According to an analysis carried out by the UNDP in 10 Latin American countries, multidimensional poverty affects 18.8% of urban women, a percentage that is almost three times higher in the case of rural women (58%).
7/ 8
2024
8/8
2024
Second Regional Technical Dialogue on Amazonian Bioeconomy and Inclusive Rural Transformation
Belém (Brazil), 07/08/2024 - 08/08/2024
A year after the signing of the Belém Declaration (2023), the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO), in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), is organizing the technical event titled, “Second Regional Dialogue on Amazonian Bioeconomy and Inclusive Rural Transformation.” This event will take place in the city of Belém, state ...
6/ 8
2024
Agrovisiones : Webinar series on innovation for agrifood transformation - Chapter 4 - Eugenia Saini
Virtual Event, 06/08/2024
Agrovisiones is a webinar program organized by FAO with the purpose of exposing voices and awakening visions that expand and transcend the Zero Hunger development goal.
Regional Representative
Regional Representative
Mr. Mario Lubetkin has been Assistant Director General and FAO Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean since 1 August, 2022.
Key Documents
Publications
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024
2024
The report provides timely and relevant recommendations regarding the efficient use of innovative financing tools and reforms to the food security and nutrition financing architecture.
2030 Food, agriculture and rural development in Latin America and the Caribbean
2023
Within the context of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), undertook a process of reflection on the future of agriculture, food systems and rural areas of Latin America and the Caribbean. It was a dialogue that involved a hundred experts from a score of nationalities, from academia, research centers, international organizations, other UN agencies, and the FAO itself.
Regional Initiatives
In depth
We are all connected
how our health is linked to that of animals, plants and the environment.
FAO Campus
Courses of self-study, semi face-to-face and virtual with tutor.
Central American Dry Corridor
Stories and facts about this "land of opportunities" in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
Parliamentary front against hunger
More than 400 legislators work with FAO, the Spanish Cooperation and AMEXCID
1000 Digital Villages in Latin America and the Caribbean Initiative
Rural tourism experiences and digitization in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Global
Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)
Discover the systems in Latin America globally recognized as agricultural heritage.
One Country One Priority Product
Global action on green development.
World Food Day
Water is life, water is food. October 16, 2023. Leave no one behind.
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Gender Equality
Empowering women in food and agriculture.
Global School Feeding Platform
Technical resources for experts and practitioners.
Data on food and agriculture
Free access to data from more than 245 countries.
Multimedia
FAO Brief - 20 May 2024
20/05/2024
In this episode, 1.8 million people in Honduras experience high levels of acute food insecurity, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification or IPC; FAO’s Director-General urges peace and digitalization to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in the Regional Conference for...