Highlights
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Director-General QU Dongyu
Let us be better together Building Four Betters – Agrifood Systems.
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Why gender equality is key to feeding the world?
A new FAO guide offers parliaments in Latin America and the Caribbean a roadmap to get there.
Stories
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Events
6/11
2025
FAO Transforma 2025: “Unlocking Finance for Agrifood Systems Transformation”
Hybrid Event, 06/11/2025
Agri-food systems in Latin America and the Caribbean are essential to the regional economy, rural employment, and food security. However, they face persistent challenges: rising food prices, extreme weather events, environmental degradation, inequalities, and gaps in access to finance and innovation.
3/11
2025
Regional Launch for Latin America and the Caribbean of the FAO Report “The Status of Youth in Agrifood Systems”
Virtual Event, 03/11/2025
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recognizes the central role that youth play in transforming agrifood systems and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
31/10
2025
Cities that Feed the Future: Innovations for Sustainable Urban Agrifood Systems
Hybrid Event, 31/10/2025
In 2024, ECLAC estimated that the population of Latin America reached 663 million people, within a global trend of demographic growth and urbanization.
Featured video
Key Documents
Publications
How to use antibiotics effectively and responsibly in poultry production - for the sake of human and animal health
2024
The use of antibiotics and thus the threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) can be reduced by adopting the right husbandry practices. This publication provides practical tips to the livestock producer aiming at improving animal health and hence the reduced use of antibiotics
FAO's four priorities in Latin America and the Caribbean
In depth
80th Anniversary of the FAO
FAO celebrates 80 years of working for a more prosperous, sustainable, and equitable future for all, leaving no one behind.
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38 FAO Regional Conference for Latin America and Caribbean
18 to 21 March, 2024, Georgetown, Guyana
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Spain - FAO Program for Latin America and the Caribbean
Ibero-American and Caribbean Cooperation for #FoodFirst and Sustainable Development
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Brazil-FAO International Cooperation Program
Alliance for the promotion of sustainable development and food security in the region
Mesoamérica Hunger-Free AMEXCID-FAO
Promoting public policies and innovative solutions for food security and sustainable rural development.
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.
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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 - 14 April 2025
14/04/2025
In this episode, an IPC analysis reveals the highest number ever recorded of acutely food insecure populations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo due to conflict, economic instability and surging food prices; sustainable water management is essential to feed Europe and Central Asia and build...