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High Level Meeting: “Food Security for all” (more information available in spanish)
Representatives from more than a 100 countries met in Madrid in January 26 to raise awareness on the global food crisis.
Panorama of Hunger in Latin America (more information available in spanish)
The publication Panorama of Hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean provides in-depth information on progress in the fight against hunger, actions to fight hunger and undernourishment, as well as a complete analysis of the phenomenon of food price rises, their regional impacts, their causes and the risks for food security.
Declaration of Bahia Reaffirms Regional Commitment against Hunger (more information available in spanish)
During the first "Latin American and Caribbean Summit on Integration and Development", the heads of state and government of all countries in the region committed themselves to supporting the initiative “Latin America and the Caribbean without Hunger (ALSCH)”.
The state of alimentary insecurity in the world- SOFI 2008
According to SOFI 2008, the number of hungry people in the world has reached 963 million people. During 2008, 40 million people have been lead to hunger due to the rise of food prices.
Analysis of cold winds (friaje) during 2008, in high Andean Peru's agriculture and stockbreeding. (more information available in spanish)
Peru's government declared a state of emergency on June, 2008, because of the low temperatures in eleven departments, forty provinces with over a million people affected. This alerted about the need to provide support to the more vulnerable communities.
FAO supports sustainable forest management in Chile (more information available in spanish)
Chilean Agriculture Minister and the FAO representative in the country signed an agreement to support evaluation and progress of sustainable forest management. The project also inlcudes the monitoring of sustainable management in Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay
3rd International Seminar on Income Transfers (more information available in spanish)
International experts and representatives of governments of the Region, meeting at the Regional Office of FAO, will analyze programs of conditional income transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean on the 1st and 2nd of December.
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