FAO Transforms Fair 2024: Knowledge and Collaboration for a Better Future

Experiences FAO Transforms Fair

Context

Agrifood systems face multiple and complex challenges that require strategic action to ensure a better future. Promoting food security with an inclusive approach in the territories where food is produced requires innovative responses committed to transforming current conditions. To this end, developing and strengthening the capacity to integrate the lessons learned from these initiatives is essential. In this scenario, resource partners who trust in FAO's action and capacity play a central role in achieving substantive changes.

After two successful versions, the FAO Transforma Fair seeks to highlight inspiring projects that have been carried out recently and that can be replicated and scaled up to other areas of Latin America and the Caribbean. This event will highlight projects framed within FAO's priority areas of improvement: Better Production, Better Nutrition, Better Environment, and Better Life. In addition, initiatives that promote better institutional support within FAO will be presented as in previous years.

The transformations required by the region can only be carried out collaboratively. For this reason, this event seeks to highlight the relationship and joint work with different FAO resource partners. Some of those invited will be representatives of leading international cooperation funds and agencies to share their experience and commitment to sustainable development goals at the global level. The objective is to create a space for dialogue to emphasize the importance of strengthening current collaboration mechanisms and mobilizing resources to achieve these goals through financing projects such as those that will be presented.

The organization of this activity is the result of a joint effort between the FAO Campus Knowledge Management team, the Resource Mobilization Unit, and the Communications team of the FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean. This event will feature ten initiatives selected from more than 25 applications considered innovative, scalable, and representative of different countries in the region, with the support of various sponsors.

Objectives

Highlight results and lessons learned from initiatives developed by FAO in Latin America and the Caribbean under FAO's priority areas: Better Production, Better Nutrition, Better Environment, and Better Life, together with improved institutional support.
To make FAO visible and strengthen its relationship with its resource partners in implementing initiatives that promote transformations in agrifood systems.
Promote the exchange of knowledge of outstanding projects, both within the Organization and with the general public, to accelerate progress towards the challenges of Sustainable Development.

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Documents

FAO Transforms 2023. Connecting the knowledge of Latin America and the Caribbean

Experiencias inspiradoras para transformar los sistemas agroalimentarios en America Latina y el Caribe

Fortalecimiento de la gobernanza e integración del conocimiento tradicional en la gestión sostenible de la pesquería a pequeña escala del puye

Capacitación y prácticas de educación alimentaria y nutricional en programas de alimentación escolar. Experiencias en cuatro países

APP Lazos #Conéctate rural

First day	Tuesday, September 3
10:00	Opening and Welcome Remarks by Eve Crowley, FAO Chile Representative and Deputy Regional Representative
10:15	Masterclass by Cristina Zurbriggen: “The challenge of generating anticipatory capabilities in organizations for a sustainable future.”
10:45	Experiences Block: Better Production Protecting Indigenous Women through Livelihood Creation (Venezuela) Strengthening Governance and Puye Fishing in a Marine Conservation Area in Southern Chile Commentary by Javier Villanueva, Senior Fisheries and Aquaculture Officer for Latin America and the Caribbean. Coordinator of the Regional Priority: Better Production.
11:40	Experiences Block: Better Nutrition Turning Waste into Wealth: Promoting the Caribbean Circular Economy (Barbados) Impacts of the Diploma in Food and Nutrition Education on School Feeding Programs (El Salvador, Honduras, Peru, and the Dominican Republic) Commentary by Ana María García, Specialist in Project Management of Agrifood Systems and Food and Nutrition Security (FNS)

Second day	Wednesday, September 4
10:00	Welcome to the Second Day of the Fair
10:05	Experiences Block: Better Environment REDESER: Sustainable Agroforestry Practices and Biodiversity Conservation (Brazil) Action, Territory, and Climate: Empowering Regions and Communities (Chile) Commentary by Hivy Ortiz, FAO Field Programme Officer for Latin America and the Caribbean and Coordinator of the Regional Priority Better Environment.
10:55	Experiences Block: Better Life Ensuring coverage, access and use of digital connectivity in rural territories (Chile) Anticipatory Actions to Protect Livelihoods and Food Security Against El Niño-Related Threats (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala). Commentary by Luiz Beduschi, Senior Policy Officer of FAO for Latin America and the Caribbean and Coordinator of the Regional Priority: Better Life.
11:50	Experiences Block: Institutional Support Tools for Better Management: Systematization, Monitoring, and Automation of Projects (Latin America and the Caribbean) Lazos APP #RuralConnect (Latin America and the Caribbean) Commentary by Felipe De Larraechea, Knowledge Management Expert of the FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean
12:30	Closing Remarks and Comments by Maya Takagi, Leader of the Strategic Program of the FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean.