Highlights
4 Betters
Learn about the FAO Strategic Framework 2022-2031
38 FAO Regional Conference for Latin America and Caribbean
18 to 21 march, 2024, Georgetown, Guyana
Stories
Healing Chile’s Huapi island
How Indigenous Peoples are restoring native forests for climate resilience
The awakening for Cuban farms
FAO-Green Climate Fund project eradicates invasive weed to restore farms and landscapes, building climate resilience and transforming lives
Traditional agrifood systems conserve biodiversity and support nutrition in Mexico
Reviving and marketing ancestral agricultural food production practices
Potato’s travel through ages and continents
Celebrating potatoes as part of global diets and agricultural heritage
Sacred plant helps forge a climate-friendly future in Paraguay
Using ancestral knowledge and growing yerba mate trees to accelerate climate action
Safe water saves water
How new Codex Alimentarius guidelines can boost water conservation
The hands behind a cup of coffee in Panama
Sustainable coffee production techniques build on Indigenous Peoples’ traditional knowledge
Events
3/ 9
2024
4/9
2024
FAO Transforms Fair 2024 - Knowledge and Collaboration for a Better Future
Virtual Event, 03/09/2024 - 04/09/2024
Agrifood systems face multiple and complex challenges that require strategic action to ensure a better future. Promoting food security with an inclusive approach in the territories where food is produced requires innovative responses committed to transforming current conditions.
23/ 8
2024
Adhesion of Latin America and the Caribbean countries to RAES - A sustainable school feeding for all
Virtual Event, 23/08/2024
Since 2009, within the framework of the Brazil-FAO International Cooperation Programme, the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC/MRE), the National Fund for Educational Development (FNDE/MEC) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have been developing projects and initiatives aimed at strengthening and consolidating school feeding programmes (SFP) and policies in ...
21/ 8
2024
23/8
2024
IX Meeting of the Regional Network of Public Food Supply and Marketing Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean (SPAA)
Brasília (Brazil), 21/08/2024 - 23/08/2024
Promote a dialogue based on the experiences generated by the members of the SPAA Network in Latin America and the Caribbean, regarding food supply and marketing policies aimed at promoting more inclusive, resilient, and sustainable agri-food systems, in the face of climate change and emergency situations.
Regional Representative
Regional Representative
Mr. Mario Lubetkin has been Assistant Director General and FAO Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean since 1 August, 2022.
Key Documents
Publications
2030 Food, agriculture and rural development in Latin America and the Caribbean
2023
Within the context of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), undertook a process of reflection on the future of agriculture, food systems and rural areas of Latin America and the Caribbean. It was a dialogue that involved a hundred experts from a score of nationalities, from academia, research centers, international organizations, other UN agencies, and the FAO itself.
Regional Initiatives
In depth
We are all connected
how our health is linked to that of animals, plants and the environment.
FAO Campus
Courses of self-study, semi face-to-face and virtual with tutor.
Central American Dry Corridor
Stories and facts about this "land of opportunities" in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
Parliamentary front against hunger
More than 400 legislators work with FAO, the Spanish Cooperation and AMEXCID
1000 Digital Villages in Latin America and the Caribbean Initiative
Rural tourism experiences and digitization in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Global
Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)
Discover the systems in Latin America globally recognized as agricultural heritage.
One Country One Priority Product
Global action on green development.
World Food Day
Water is life, water is food. October 16, 2023. Leave no one behind.
Gender Equality
Empowering women in food and agriculture.
Global School Feeding Platform
Technical resources for experts and practitioners.
Data on food and agriculture
Free access to data from more than 245 countries.
Multimedia
FAO Brief - 20 May 2024
20/05/2024
In this episode, 1.8 million people in Honduras experience high levels of acute food insecurity, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification or IPC; FAO’s Director-General urges peace and digitalization to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in the Regional Conference for...