The Community of Latin America and Caribbean States
What is CELAC?
CELAC is the result of several multilateral bodies established by Latin American countries to seek peace, socio-economic development and integration region-wide. It was created in February 2010 at a meeting of the CALC, in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo - Mexico. Subsequently, at the Summit of Caracas - Venezuela, December 2011, it was definitively established as CELAC.
CELAC is an instrument to implement and strengthen regional participation in multilateral negotiation processes, extra-regional cooperation, and political dialogue towards the different challenges of the current economic, social and political system aiming at an equitable development.
CELAC’s Plan for Food Security, Nutrition and Hunger Eradication
CELAC's Plan for Food Security, Nutrition and Hunger Eradication 2025 emerges from a political will of the thirty-three countries in the region to eradicate hunger and poverty by 2025.
The Plan has four main pillars seeking to strengthen all aspects of food security. It is composed by ten main lines of action to develop national, subregional and regional policies, programs, strategies and projects to assist the 34 million people who still live with hunger in the Region.
CELAC plan contains the main successful food security policies and initiatives developed by countries in the region, and has become the major roadmap towards zero hunger by 2025. [View more]
CELAC Summits
Member countries of the CELAC
CELAC-FAO News
- CELAC adopts gender approach to ensure the impact of its hunger eradication plan
- Latin America and the Caribbean could be first developing region to eradicate hunger
- Quienes producen los alimentos están entre los más pobres de América Latina y el Caribe
- Cambio climático amenaza la base de la seguridad alimentaria de América Latina y el Caribe: el sector agrícola
- Principal acuerdo regional de erradicación del hambre rinde frutos a lo largo de América Latina y el Caribe
- Ministers of Latin America and the Caribbean establish a pathway towards sustainable agriculture
- Latin America and the Caribbean face losses and food waste
- FAO and CELAC coordinate their efforts to eradicate hunger
- FAO presents food security plan to eradicate hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean
- CELAC adopts guidelines for family farming and creates a family farming and rural development working group
- Petrocaribe and ALBA agreed an action plan for the eradication of hunger and poverty
CELAC in the press
- El Salvador ratifica compromiso de fortalecer unidad en la Celac
- Asume El Salvador presidencia pro témpore de la CELAC
- FAO ofrece continuidad de promoción de seguridad alimentaria
- Trabaja la CELAC por la seguridad alimentaria de sus pueblos
- R.Dominicana acoge la V Cumbre de Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno de la CELAC
- CELAC, un bloque unido por la paz y la integración regional
- Comienza hoy reunión de cancilleres
- Cancilleres inician debates previos a Cumbre de CELAC
- Celac celebrará V Cumbre en República Dominicana
- CELAC: Presidentes Latinoamericanos, Banco Mundial, ONU, BID, CEPAL, SEGIB Y La FAO Presentará Los Avances Del Plan SAN CELAC
- Récord de asistencia de mandatarios a la Cumbre de la CELAC
- Confirman la asistencia de 18 países a la V Cumbre CELAC
- Dominican Republic assumes CELAC’s presidency pro tempore
- FAO presents a plan to eradicate hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean
- FAO announces a plan to end hunger of 37 million Latin Americans
- CELAC countries unite to eradicate extreme poverty
- Foreign ministers meet in Quito to refine documents and statements to be submitted for consideration of CELAC leaders.