Enabling farmer-led ecosystem restoration Farmer field schools on forestry and agroforestry

01/01/2024

Agricultural expansion is responsible for almost 90 percent of deforestation worldwide, making it a leading driver of biodiversity and habitat loss. Cropland expansion is the main driver, causing almost 50 percent of global deforestation, followed by livestock grazing, which accounts for 38.5 percent.

Policy guidance note: Sustainable soil management

01/01/2024

Soils are a productive resource that provides multiple functions, goods and services. Therefore, their sustainable management is a valuable tool to address global challenges such as population growth, degradation of productive resources and climate change.

FAO Cuba cooperation 2022

22/12/2023

This report summarizes the main results of FAO Cuba in 2022. At a time when Latin America and the Caribbean are determined to face and overcome the most complex humanitarian, economic and social crisis in recent decades, FAO in Cuba continues to take steps towards the consolidation of its essential goals, with more than USD 57 million mobilized between 2019 and 2022, in support of the priority areas signed with the government in the Country Program Framework 2020-2024.

Antimicrobial resistance policy benchmarks in medicated feed

07/12/2023

The Policy Benchmarks are based on the recommendations established in international reference policies, complemented by other policy instruments that set scientifically based objectives. The Policy Benchmarks are part of the methodology "National self-assessment of existing capacities to contain AMR through medicated feed policies and their governance", designed by FAO in a joint effort with 7 South American countries.

Antimicrobial resistance policy benchmarks in medicated feed

25/11/2023

The Policy Benchmarks are based on the recommendations established in international reference policies, complemented by other policy instruments that set scientifically based objectives.

Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean 2023

09/11/2023

Legislating to prevent and reduce food loss and waste

08/09/2023

Legislating to prevent and reduce food loss and waste. Legal brief for parliamentarians in Latin America and the Caribbean, no. 10