The Group’s workplace for Latin America and the Caribbean participated in varied occasions the place it introduced initiatives that showcase success tales in local weather change adaptation and mitigation.
The Regional Workplace for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Meals and Agriculture Group of the United Nations ended its participation within the United Nations Local weather Change Convention (COP28) with a name to remodel agrifood techniques to attain sustainable, resilient, and low-emission options to deal with local weather change.
The FAO Regional Workplace’s participation in COP28, which befell between November 30 and December 12 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, targeted initially on the work carried out by the Platform for Local weather Motion in Agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean (PLACA).
This 12 months, the mechanism, comprised of 16 area nations, attracted greater than 3,000 contributors, providing programs, coaching, and workshops on Extension, Adaptation, and Mitigation of Local weather Change. It additionally raised greater than 200 low-cost technological options to advertise local weather motion in agriculture.
Members included Cesar Saboto, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, Rural Transformation, Business and Labor of St. Vincent and the Grenadines; Ana María Loboguerrero, Director of the Local weather Motion Analysis Space of the Bioversity CIAT Alliance and Senior Director of Local weather Motion of the CGIAR; Juan Carlos Mendoza, Director of Setting and Local weather Change of IFAD; Sol Ortiz García, Common Director of Coverage, Foresight and Local weather Change of the Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Improvement in Mexico and presently President of the CGIAR; Juan Carlos Mendoza, Director of Setting and Local weather Change at IFAD; Sol Ortiz Garcia, Director Common of Coverage, Prospecting and Local weather Change on the Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Improvement in Mexico and presently President of PLACA; and Kaveh Zahedi, Director of FAO’s Workplace of Local weather Change, Biodiversity, and Setting.
“Strengthening regional local weather motion within the agricultural sector, the supply of a variety of options contributing to local weather change adaptation and mitigation, is pressing. On this context, PLACA has been strengthened as a high-level articulation house to deal with agriculture’s contribution to the local weather agenda,” defined María Mercedes Proaño, FAO Local weather Finance Officer for Latin America and the Caribbean.
As well as, FAO, in collaboration with the Central American Integration System (SICA), addressed nature-based options within the dry hall and arid zones of the SICA area.
On this context, these current shared methods, good practices, and classes realized to scale back vulnerability and strengthen resilience in these territories, highlighting, particularly, the profitable implementation of the Regional Initiative on Agriculture, Forestry and Different Land Makes use of, AFOLU 2040, whose central goal is to construct regional agricultural resilience in SICA nations. This initiative goals to revive and preserve 10 million hectares of degraded land and ecosystems by 2030 and obtain carbon neutrality by 2040.
By way of bioeconomy, the occasion “Bio-Amazonian Financial system and Inclusive Rural Transformation” supported nations’ efforts to adapt to and mitigate local weather change, guaranteeing the event of livelihoods according to native data and preferences, exploring alternatives and challenges to unlock the potential of the Amazon as a viable path for its inclusive and sustainable growth, which exceeds Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Norway, and the UK in dimension.
With 237 million hectares of forest, this territory is important to our planet, internet hosting 20% of contemporary water and 10% of the world’s biodiversity and residential to greater than 50 million folks, together with 400 indigenous peoples, Afro-descendant communities, and farmers.
Lastly, the occasion “Driving local weather motion with sustainable crops: how yerba mate, cocoa and low improve revenue and cut back emissions” highlighted the dear work with indigenous communities of the “Poverty, Reforestation, Power and Local weather Change” (PROEZA) mission, with the sacred plant yerba mate, and financing from the Inexperienced Local weather Fund. The occasion confirmed how collaboration with indigenous communities can generate optimistic impacts within the battle in opposition to poverty and environmental safety.
A brand new paradigm
Meals techniques should take into account sustainable, environment friendly, low-emission, and nutrient-rich manufacturing, as they’re presently not sustainable sufficient, degrading, undernourishing, and producing in a restricted method.
For this, it’s essential to create a brand new paradigm in effectivity and use of more and more restricted pure sources, much less air pollution in emissions, use of plastics and chemical compounds, restoring biodiversity and ecosystem providers, and producing wholesome meals.
“In a altering and unsure setting, the power to adapt to manufacturing is important, and this has to don’t solely with how and when it’s produced but in addition with predicting as precisely as doable, going through totally different eventualities to stop dangers and handle environmental catastrophes,” defined Hivy Ortiz, FAO Sustainable Agriculture Officer for Latin America and the Caribbean.
“Biophysical parts and good agricultural practices have to be taken into consideration, in addition to social concerns equivalent to social forecasting, and financial points related to funding in good know-how for processing, catastrophic insurance coverage for environmental and social restoration, amongst different parts,” added Ortiz.
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