FAO to hold the Latin American and Caribbean Meeting of the United Nations Decade for Family Farming

With the presence of 10 ministers and vice-ministers, representatives of 24 countries of the region, and 200 delegates, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), together with MERCOSUR, the Central American Integration System (SICA) and platforms of organizations of producers of Family Agriculture, will hold the “Latin American and Caribbean Meeting of the United Nations Decade for Family Agriculture.”

This activity aims to review the role of this sector in agrifood systems and the importance of implementing differentiated public policies according to the realities of each country for Family Farming in the region. In this way, FAO will provide a space for dialogue between a series of regional and national actors at its headquarters in Santiago de Chile.

The opening ceremony will be held on Tuesday, December 06, will run until December 07, and will be led by the FAO Regional Representative in Latin America and the Caribbean, Mario Lubetkin, authorities of the region, and representatives of the Executive Secretariat of the Central American Agricultural Council, the Specialized Meeting on Family Agriculture of MERCOSUR, the Central American Integration System (SICA), the Institutional Fund for Agricultural Development.

The United Nations declared 2019-2028 as the Decade of Family Farming to bring a new perspective on what it means to be a family producer in a rapidly changing environment. In addition, it highlights the role played by family farming in the eradication of hunger and the construction of the food future.

WHAT

Inauguration of the Latin American and Caribbean Meeting of the United Nations Decade for Family Farming.

WHO

- Mario Lubetkin, FAO Regional Representative.

- Remmy Rubén Gonzales, Minister of Agriculture of the Plurinational State of Bolivia.

- Jose Abelardo Mai, Minister of Agriculture of Belize.

- Esteban Valenzuela, Minister of Agriculture of Chile.

- Víctor Carvajal Porras, Minister of Agriculture and Livestock of Costa Rica.

- Augusto Valderrama, Minister of Agricultural Development of Panama.

- Fernanda Maldonado, General Director of the Secretariat of the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries of Uruguay.

- Lucrecia Rodriguez, Executive Secretary of the Agricultural Council of the Central American Integration System.

- Santiago Rojas, Director of INDAP.

WHERE

FAO Regional headquarters, Santiago de Chile

WHEN

December 6, 4:00 pm (GMT-3)

Follow the live broadcast here: https://www.fao.org/americas/eventos/ver/es/c/1620504/