World Cotton Day was marked by several activities in Brazil.

La iniciativa fue lanzada en el marco del Foro Mundial de la Alimentación, en Roma. En la instancia participó el Subdirector General y Representante Regional de FAO, Mario Lubetkin.

Joint initiative of the FNDE and the regional school feeding project of the Brazil-FAO International Cooperation began in October

With 80 million Latin American and Caribbean students benefiting and 14 years of implementation in the region, the partnership between Brazil and FAO with countries is entering a new phase.

El 09 de noviembre, a las 12:00 horas de Santiago de Chile/ 11:00 horas de Washington, DC, 10:00 horas de Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá, cinco agencias de la ONU presentarán la nueva edición del Panorama regional de seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición en Amér

El informe Panorama 2023 indica que, pese a que se detuvo la tendencia al alza en el último periodo, los niveles de hambre en la región continúan por sobre las cifras de 2019 previo a la pandemia por COVID-19. Además, el 8,6% de los menores de cinco años

El encuentro se realizó en la oficina regional de la FAO, en preparación de la reunión de ministros de Agricultura que tendrá lugar a inicios de 2024 en Chile.

Este será el primer evento conmemorativo del Día Mundial del Algodón, presencial, en la región. El objetivo es reforzar el rol de la producción y transformación del algodón como generador de empleo e ingresos.

2.2 million people in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua lost their crops due to rains and droughts, of which 1.4 million need food assistance urgently. FAO and WFP request US $ 72 million from the international community to provide food as

Latin America and the Caribbean is the world’s most important exporter for bananas and the four major tropical fruits – mangoes, pineapples, avocados and papayas.

Brazilian maize exports for the 2019/2020 season forecast to reach 29.5 million tonnes.

Rainwater harvesting in Jamaica and planting trees to protect Bolivia's cattle or Haitian peas are three of the practices described by a new FAO study.

With an international meeting in Rome, the United Nations launched the Decade of Family Farming, a sector that employs more than 60 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Port State Measures Agreement’s rapid adoption is a critical boon for global efforts to safeguard global marine resources and achieve food security

FAO and the the Inter-American Development Bank team-up to support

FAO Director General stresses importance of investing in the poor as the way to achieve sustainable development

Un nouveau rapport prévoit une croissance de 22% pour les cultures, de 16% pour les produits de l'élevage et de 12% pour la production de poisson au cours de la prochaine décennie, tandis que la production de céréales ralentira.

South America hosts the majority of the undernourished due to the decline of food security in Venezuela, says new UN report.

Experts from Microsoft, Huawei and Telefónica, agricultural NGOs and representatives from governments and International Organizations will participate in the FAO rural innovation seminar in Uruguay.

Boyd Swinburn, professor at the University of Auckland and one of the most prominent international researchers on obesity policies, gave a seminar at FAO on ´´The role of international agencies in addressing the Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition,