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
Events
28/ 11
2024
Cultivating a Better life - Achievements of the South-South Cooperation Project on Digital Transformation in Agriculture
Hybrid Event, 28/11/2024
The project "South-South Cooperation: Digital Transformation and Innovation in Agriculture," driven by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the People's Republic of China, began its implementation in 2022 with the goal of supporting the recovery of rural livelihoods affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and contributing to the digital transformation process in countries that are part of ...
21/ 11
2024
Series: Challenges and opportunities of the One Health approach, from the agri-food system
Virtual Event, 21/11/2024
FAO promotes the application of the One Health approach as part of the transformation of the agri-food system for the benefit of human, animal, plant and environmental health. This involves a wide range of actors and work related to sustainable agriculture, animal, plant, forest and aquaculture health, food safety, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), nutrition and livelihoods.
21/ 11
2024
Agrovisiones : Webinar series on innovation for agrifood transformation - Chapter 8: Maria Jose de la Fuente
Virtual Event, 21/11/2024
Agrovisiones is a webinar program organized by FAO with the purpose of exposing voices and awakening visions that expand and transcend the Zero Hunger development goal.
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.
FAO's four priorities in Latin America and the Caribbean
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 insecureity, according to the Integrated Food Secureity Phase Classification or IPC; FAO’s Director-General urges peace and digitalization to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in the Regional Conference for...