The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the world’s fragilities, including the weaknesses of our food systems which exacerbate hunger, obesity, poverty, political instabilities and economic crises. To overcome common and regional challenges, the five UN regional commissions have been working jointly on devising harmonized pathways and proposing game changers that can transform food systems, reverse their current performance and improve their outcomes.
This collaboration resulted in the launch of a joint policy brief entitled Transforming Food Systems for the Food Systems Summit, held on 23 Sept…
6 Oct 2023, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:19
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Comunicado de prensa
San José, Costa Rica, October 6, 2023 (IICA). The strengthening of regional cooperation is vital today to address the challenges and opportunities created by the confluence of crises around the world, and to be able to promote sustainable, inclusive and resilient agrifood systems in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
The point is emphasized in the latest edition of The Outlook for Agriculture and Rural Development in the Americas: A Perspective on Latin America and the Caribbean 2023-2024, a report prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Food an…
The Caribbean subregion is exceptionally vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events. Vulnerability is a key multidimensional concept at the heart of resilience building, relating to each country’s multiple spatial and socioeconomic risks and conditions. In fact, due to its geographical location and concentration of population and activities in low-lying coastal areas, the Caribbean is the second most hazard-prone region in the world...Moreover, impacts of extreme weather events on Caribbean small economies are of national proportions. For example, in the hurricane s…
12 - 14 Nov
2007, 06:00 - 15:00
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Evento (Meetings and technical symposiums)
En el marco del programa de cooperación GTZ-CEPAL denominado "Hacia una globalización sostenible y equitativa", cuyo objetivo es apoyar a los países miembros de la CEPAL en la aplicación de nuevos enfoques e instrumentos para la formulación, la implementación y la evaluación de políticas sectoriales integradas y concertadas entre las instancias estatales, para la promoción de un desarrollo económico se realizó el seminario "Public Policies for the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources: the case of Biofuels" en la ciudad de Puerto España, Trinidad y Tobago.
En esta oportunidad representant…
4 Mar 2022, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:20
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Nota informativa
La Cooperación Alemana apoya la realización de cuatro eventos paralelos en el marco del Quinto Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible, que se efectuará entre el 7 y el 9 de marzo en San José de Costa Rica.
1. Casos ilustrativos del Gran Impulso para la Sostenibilidad (7 de marzo entre las 12:45-14:25 hrs Costa Rica, GMT-6)
En el marco de este evento paralelo se presentarán tres casos de políticas industriales alineadas al concepto del Gran Impulso para la Sostenibilidad en América Latina y el Caribe, y el trabajo realizado en el ma…