{"id":16975,"date":"2026-03-06T16:18:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/?p=16975"},"modified":"2026-03-06T16:49:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:49:49","slug":"fao-regional-conference-for-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-39th-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/fao-regional-conference-for-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-39th-session\/","title":{"rendered":"FAO Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean 39th\u00a0Session  \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-03-05-at-11.55.29-AM.jpeg\" width=\"253\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Permanent Secretary Walter Christopher (l) with other delegates at the 39th FAO Conference<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN held its 39<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0session of the Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean in Brasilia Brazil 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0March to 6th March 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The five days of meeting were held, two days for Senior Officers and three Days for Ministers, which addressed many issues around transforming AgriFood systems in LAC.e.g.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Food price inflation for food security and nutrition.<\/li>\n<li>One Health in LAC: challenges and pathways forward to address animal, plant and human health issues.<\/li>\n<li>The challenges of Soil and Water Management.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The sessions also reviewed the main results achieved by FAO in Latin American &amp; the Caribbean, during the 2024-2025 period, in advancing the transformation towards Sustainable Agri-Food Systems.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts were directed at the priorities for the biennium 2026-2027 and beyond under the FAO Reviewed Strategic Framework 2022-2031.<\/p>\n<p>Further, CARICOM countries met with FAO Assistant Director (Regional), IICA Director General and The Vice Minister of Agriculture of Brazil and his senior programme officers.<\/p>\n<p>In summary, the meetings resulted in opportunities to explore cooperation that will\u00a0strengthen and influence FAO\u2019s work programme in Antigua &amp; Barbuda for the next two years, mainly in the areas of Soil and Water Management, Protected Agriculture and Organizational review of the Department of Agriculture to deliver Climate Smart Technologies &amp; Approaches support.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Permanent Secretary Walter Christopher (l) with other delegates at the 39th FAO Conference &nbsp; The Food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fao","category-news-notices","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16975"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16989,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16975\/revisions\/16989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}