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2026 International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists
Aims to foster inclusive policy dialogue and collaborative engagement to improve pastoralist livelihoods and sustainable rangeland management. Rangelands and pastoralists have great potential to contribute and deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals.
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2026 the International Year of the Woman Farmer
The Year will spotlight the essential roles women play across agrifood systems, from production to trade, while often going unrecognized. Women farmers are central to food security, nutrition and economic resilience.
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Series: Challenges and opportunities of the One Health approach, from the agri-food system
FAO promotes the application of the One Health approach as part of the transformation of the agri-food system for the benefit of human, animal, plant and environmental health
Virtual Event, 02/10/2025
Live broadcast
About the webinar
This meeting seeks to highlight and strengthen the gender approach as an essential pillar for the transformation of agri-food systems, recognizing that inequalities directly affect the capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to threats impacting human, animal, and environmental health.
Good practices from the region will be reviewed, demonstrating the feasibility and effectiveness of integrating this approach in addressing the socio-productive challenges of agri-food systems.
The session will emphasize the challenges and opportunities for the empowerment of rural women, as well as the development of programs that address these issues through the One Health approach. The activity will include interactive participation using digital tools and a dialogue space with panelists to further explore challenges, opportunities, and solutions.
The event will feature presentations by renowned experts and will be moderated by Catalina Ivanovic, FAO Specialist on Rural Women Empowerment for Latin America and the Caribbean.
About the series
FAO promotes the application of the "One Health" approach as part of the transformation of the agrifood system in favor of the health of people, animals, plants and the environment. This translates into a variety of actors and work related to sustainable agriculture, animal, plant, forest and aquaculture health, food safety, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), nutrition and livelihoods.
Ensuring the "One Health" approach is essential to make progress in predicting, preventing, detecting and responding to diseases that spread between animals and humans, including Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and food safety, along with managing environmental determinants of risks to human and animal health, within a set of linked challenges in disease causation. The adoption of the "One Health" approach is also fundamental to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
During the 2024-2025 biennium, a series of webinars will be held to promote this integrative approach to a systemic approach to the health of people, animals, plants and the environment.
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Documents
Regional Platform for the Empowerment of Rural Women
Rural Women’s Empowerment and Environmental Sustainability Acceleration Programme
Contact
Animal Health Specialist
FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean
Better Production Specialist
FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean
Appointment
Regional Representative
Mr. Rene Orellana Halkyer was appointed by the FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, as Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean, effective 1 November 2025.
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Key Documents
Publications
How to use antibiotics effectively and responsibly in poultry production - for the sake of human and animal health
2024
The use of antibiotics and thus the threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) can be reduced by adopting the right husbandry practices. This publication provides practical tips to the livestock producer aiming at improving animal health and hence the reduced use of antibiotics
FAO's four priorities in Latin America and the Caribbean
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80th Anniversary of the FAO
FAO celebrates 80 years of working for a more prosperous, sustainable, and equitable future for all, leaving no one behind.
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38 FAO Regional Conference for Latin America and Caribbean
18 to 21 March, 2024, Georgetown, Guyana
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Spain - FAO Program for Latin America and the Caribbean
Ibero-American and Caribbean Cooperation for #FoodFirst and Sustainable Development
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Brazil-FAO International Cooperation Program
Alliance for the promotion of sustainable development and food security in the region
Mesoamérica Hunger-Free AMEXCID-FAO
Promoting public policies and innovative solutions for food security and sustainable rural development.
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FAO Campus
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Parliamentary front against hunger
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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
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Data on food and agriculture
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Multimedia
FAO Brief – 7 July 2025
01/07/2025
In this episode of the FAO Brief: FAO scales up emergency seed distribution in Sudan; a new FAO report on the status of youth in agrifood systems; and FAO’s Conference held in Rome.