The Ministers of Agriculture of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States, CELAC, will meet in Chile on January 16 2024 to debate the replace of the CELAC Meals and Dietary Safety and Starvation Eradication Plan 2030 on the occasion “Agriculture Unites Folks – Meals and dietary safety for our Americas”.
This plan replace responds to a request made by the CELAC Heads of State and Authorities within the Presidential Declaration of Buenos Aires in January 2023.
The exercise will happen at FAO headquarters for Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago, Chile. Will probably be attended by greater than 25 ministers and top-level authorities from international locations within the area, each in particular person and on-line.
St. Vincent and the Grenadines at the moment holds the Professional Tempore Presidency of CELAC. In Might 2023, the CELAC Ministers of Agriculture met in Guyana to make progress in updating the plan by means of a preliminary regional dialogue with an trade of concepts and cooperation among the many Member States.
As a part of the technical work, a technical session was held in Chile in November 2023 between high-level governmental and technical authorities, policymakers, consultants from worldwide organizations, and civil society to facilitate a framework of assist in advancing the plan for its implementation.
The method has the technical assist of the Meals and Agriculture Group of the United Nations (FAO), the Financial Fee for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Latin American Integration Affiliation (ALADI) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA).
The assembly will embrace an inaugural session adopted by the technical classes, which is able to embrace a chat by FAO Chief Economist Máximo Torero on the challenges to meals safety and vitamin within the area.
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