The initiative aims to balance and sustainably optimize the health of people, animals, and ecosystems and is essential for achieving progress in anticipating, preventing, detecting, and controlling diseases that spread between animals and humans, addressing AMR, and ensuring food safety.

As natural disasters like Hurricane Beryl threaten our food security, pig stakeholders in St Lucia are determined to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to improve their production. 

As part of its efforts to revitalize the Caribbean's cocoa industry to enhance food security, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has been strengthening the sector's foundations as a crucial undertaking.

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Around 733 million people faced hunger in 2023, equivalent to one in eleven people globally and one in five in Africa, according to the latest State...

The commission is the world's largest gathering of policymakers, experts, and partners in the fisheries and aquaculture sector. The provisions adopted are intended to support efforts at all levels to enhance aquaculture's important role in eradicating hunger and poverty.

Developed with the support of the FAO and the cooperation of Spain and Mexico, the Model Law aims to transform agrifood systems and advance towards more sustainable agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Regulations aims to combat Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing on the island among other objectives

The weather phenomenon has had severe effects on agriculture, threatening food security and the livelihoods of small producers. 

Through the Platform for Climate Action in Agriculture (PLACA), more than 1,200 technical experts from the region's ministries and secretariats have been trained on issues related to adaptation to climate change in the agricultural sector.

The Organization held a workshop for nearly one hundred representatives of member countries to enhance their knowledge of the GCF application process through technical presentations and lessons learned.

 

Globally, available volumes of macroalgae have grown at an average annual rate of 5.69% between 2010 and 2020. However, during this period, only 1.4% of the global share of capture and cultivation was from Latin America and the Caribbean, so experts agreed on the importance of focusing on and promoting this area in the region.  

  

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Marine Resources hosted an inception workshop for a Drone Mapping, Monitoring and Geospatial Analysis Training programme on Tuesday April 30,2024

Initiatives, supported by FAO's regional office, seek to increase resilience to climate change, biodiversity loss, and land degradation. 

The event brought together representatives from Brazil and other countries in the region, who highlighted the innovations of this law. The initiative currently serves 40 million students daily in Brazil.

Over 40 sea moss farmers and technicians gathered for four days of field and classroom training on best practices in sea moss production as a key step in increasing and improving production and strengthening the country’s sea moss value chain.

Eight Caribbean countries stand to benefit from the new CA$10 million

National experts from various government agencies benefited from a learning journey in Brazil.