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Learn about the FAO Strategic Framework 2022-2031
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38 FAO Regional Conference for Latin America and Caribbean
18 to 21 march, 2024, Georgetown, Guyana
Stories
Thinking outside the fish tank
Five innovative tools and techniques that the FISH4ACP project set afloat to boost global aquatic food systems
Alternative Livestock Feed Project to prioritize locally sourced ingredients
Alternative feed solutions are being sourced to drive sustainability in the livestock sector
Healing Chile’s Huapi island
How Indigenous Peoples are restoring native forests for climate resilience
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
New approaches to data collection for forest inventories in Latin America and the Caribbean
Virtual Event, 28/08/2024
Background
National Forest Inventories (NFIs) provide robust and useful data for sustainable forest management and climate action. One of the main components of national forest monitoring systems (NFMS) are NFIs, which rely on multiple data sources, including field inventories, remote sensing, and socioeconomic surveys, to estimate the relevant characteristics of forests at particular times. The information generated by NFIs has a positive impact on society, as they provide science-based data for forest-related policy development, both nationally and internationally, as well as for public and private forest planning and management. (FAO, 2021)
In recent years, countries in the region have made considerable progress in developing their National Forest Inventories (NFIs) and, in some cases, exploring the participation of local communities and organizations in the field data collection, considering that the role of local communities and organizations can contribute beyond the conservation of forest resources to play a key role in data collection and development forest monitoring activities, in general.
Under this brief context, and within the framework of the UN REDD program, with the technical support of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the National Forestry Commission (CONAFOR) will hold on August 28th, 2024, a Virtual Meeting on Sharing Experiences on Innovative Methods for Collecting National Forest Inventory Data with Local participation which will bring together members of the IFN-LAC Network.
General objective
Present and discuss country experiences that can provide elements for the implementation of new approaches to NFI field data collection with the engagement of local communities or organizations.
Specific Objectives
To share experiences on the participation of local communities or organizations in NFI field data collection in Guatemala, Mexico and Panama.
Encourage NFI-LAC Network member countries to reflect on the participation of local communities and organizations in NFI field data collection and their application within the countries of the region.
Identify opportunities, challenges, and lessons learned about engaging local communities and organizations in NFI field data collection.
Workshop Expected Outcomes
Reports with relevant aspects identified in the Webinar regarding the participation of local communities and organizations in NFI field data collection.
Participants
Delegates from the National Forest Inventory Network (LAC) countries, participants from Mexico, Panama and Guatemala. In addition, it will be broadcast on FAO’s Latin America and the Caribbean YouTube channel.
Live broadcast
Documents
Contact
Monitoring, Reporting and Verification REDD+ advisor - Latin America. Forestry Division
REDD+ expert and Coordinator REDD+/NFM Team for Latin America Subregional Office for Mesoamerica
REDD+ Forest positive value chains and forest governance Expert - Latin America. Forestry Division
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
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.
FAO's four priorities in Latin America and the Caribbean
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...