Representatives of the non-public, scientific, tutorial, and civil society sectors met to supply enter for the controversy to be held on March 11. Greater than 1,800 folks adopted the periods on-line.
The Regional Workplace of the Meals and Agriculture Group of the United Nations for Latin America and the Caribbean performed a spherical of consultations with non-governmental stakeholders within the run-up to the thirty eighth Regional Convention of the Group LARC38.
In February, FAO held conferences between FAO officers and representatives of the non-public, scientific, and tutorial sectors and civil society to debate and contribute to FAO’s work agenda for the following biennium (2024-2025). The compilation of those inputs – which embody info, experiences, knowledge, and information from every sector – might be used as inputs to the nation dialogue on the Convention.
A median of 600 attendees adopted the periods at every session through YouTube, X, and Zoom. As well as, the FAO Regional Workplace in Santiago de Chile obtained members from all sectors in particular person.
FAO Assistant Director-Basic and Regional Consultant for Latin America and the Caribbean, Mario Lubetkin, expressed his gratitude for the excessive degree of participation within the numerous days of the preliminary consultations and careworn the significance of those inputs for the controversy that may happen from April 11 on the Regional Convention.
“For FAO, it’s important to work extra and higher with civil society as a strategic companion of our cooperation, in coordination with governments and the participation of different sectors, to maneuver in direction of broader and extra numerous governance,” mentioned Lubetkin, who added on the finish of the conferences: “By means of these consultations, we need to contribute to provide better visibility and spotlight civil society initiatives that permit us to establish extra modern actions, with scientific proof, but in addition with ancestral information of indigenous peoples, ladies, youth and all actors linked to the agrifood sector and rural improvement.”
FAO Regional Convention is an official discussion board the place ministers of agriculture and senior officers of the Member Nations of the area meet to debate challenges and precedence points associated to meals and agriculture to advertise regional coherence on international coverage points.
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