09/10/2025, Rome – From 10 to 13 October, at Porta di Capena Square in Rome, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will hold the First Global Exhibition: From Seeds to Foods. The Latin America and the Caribbean pavilion will participate under the theme “Agrobiodiversity for Life and Livelihoods.” The exhibition is part of the celebrations marking FAO’s 80th anniversary.

The regional pavilion will bring together a wide array of flavors, products, and traditional knowledge. The regional +Cotton project will showcase handicrafts and textile samples made with Latin American cotton, highlighting some of the looks from the Latin America Dresses in Cotton collection. The collection was launched within the framework of the project and is inspired by the traditional garments of rural women from Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Peru.

The +Cotton project is a South-South cooperation initiative carried out since 2013 by FAO, the Brazilian Cooperation Agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (ABC/MRE), and six partner countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Peru, within the framework of the Brazil-FAO International Cooperation Program.

The project will share the pavilion with representatives from Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela. In total, more than 50 products representing the region’s 32 countries will be exhibited, reflecting its vast agricultural and cultural richness.

In addition, the pavilion will feature an interactive space for children, where they will be able to discover, through games and animated videos, the foods that Latin America and the Caribbean have shared with the world. In this space, the animated video Cotton: The Fiber that Unites Us, produced by the +Cotton project, will be presented.