The most recent FAO reports indicate that food insecurity has increased in Latin America and the Caribbean in the last three years, and that rising overweight and obesity rates have become a major public health threat.

The 35th session of the Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean will discuss how to strengthen the Food and Nutrition Security Plan of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (FSN-CELAC) and other strategies that can help countries of the region to achieve Zero Hunger, while also promoting food systems that favor healthy diets.

The regional conferences of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) are held in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Near East and North Africa, and are convened on a biennial basis to discuss priority issues for agriculture and rural development.

dates: 5-8 March 2018
location: Montego Bay, Saint James, Jamaica
www: http://www.fao.org/about/meetings/regional-conferences/larc35/documents/en/
http://www.fao.org/about/meetings/regional-conferences/en/