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DocumentSustainable Agriculture: A tool to strengthen Food Security and Nutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean
2014-2015 Highlights
2016Also available in:
FAO seeks to promote practices and policies that support integration of the agriculture and productive sectors (crops, livestock, forestry and fisheries) to ensure the responsible management and long term availability of natural resources. For this, it focuses its efforts on improving and standardizing productive activities, as it acknowledges the need to produce safe foods and implement good agricultural practices, such as the integrated pest and disease management, harvest and postharvest han dling, technological innovation and the conservation of biodiversity. On including social aspects, such as food security, dignified work, food education and the strengthening of associations. Environmental aspects, such as water and soil management, the sustainability of the productive system, the handling of agrochemicals, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and risk analysis. And economic aspects, such as entrepreneurial management, competitiveness and fair trade. FAO inicitives at a r egional level, in a constant search for such productive sustainability, are developed under an eco-systemic approach to achieve an efficient production, an egalitarian, participative society with oportunities for its economic, physical and mental growth in a healthy environment. -
Book (series)Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2018
Inequality and food systems
2019Also available in:
Latin America and the Caribbean deviates from its path toward the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger. The number of undernourished people increased for the third consecutive year reaching 39.3 million, 6.1% of the population. The social and economic inequalities that characterize the region aggravate the problem of malnutrition. Vulnerable groups, such as the population living in poverty, children, women, indigenous peoples and rural inhabitants, tend to experience more severe problems of hunger and malnutrition. Inequality of malnutrition is also seen in gender. The problems of malnutrition in the region are the result of the profound changes that have affected its food systems, which determine the quantity, quality and diversity of food available for consumption, a transformation that has been driven by growing urbanization, changes in diets and new ways of producing and processing food. The solution to the problems of hunger and malnutrition in the region requires changes to its food systems. -
BookletTowards sustainable food and nutrition security in Latin America and the Caribbean in response to the global food crisis 2022
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The most recent spike in international food prices began in the middle of 2020, driven mainly by the behaviour of the prices of vegetable oils and cereals. Pandemic-induced inflationary pressure was expected to be transitory. However, the war in Ukraine has caused further ruptures in key productive chains, such as energy and fertilizers. This has not only prevented inflation from returning to its pre-pandemic levels but has accelerated it significantly in the first seven months of 2022. This publication presents the most important messages related to this crisis.
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