Meeting Name: FAO Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean (LARC)
Meeting symbol/code: LARC/16/4
Session: Sess. 34

《联合国气候变化框架公约》缔约方大会（COP）的许多会外活动和并行活动为粮农组织介绍其气候变化工作及与其潜在合作伙伴进行交流提供了一个主要机遇。本小册子旨在提高人们对气候变化对粮食安全和营养产生影响的认识，并倡导在气候变化机制、政策及财政方面适当考量农业部门的重要性。

Cooperation between Ghana and FAO began when the country joined the Organization in 1957, and one year later the FAO Regional Office for Africa was established in Accra. Since then, FAO has been working closely with the Government, providing a broad range of support to the national food and agricultural development agenda. More recently, FAO has assisted the Government in implementing the country’s Medium-Term Agriculture Sector Investment Plan and in formulation of the Ghana Agricultural Transformation Agenda

عكفت منظمة الأغذية والزراعة منذ انضمام مملكة البحرين إليها في عام 1971، على تقديم الدعم الفني من أجل تعزيز الأمن الغذائي والتغذية وتحسين إدارة الدولة للموارد الطبيعية والحفاظ عليها. ويشمل التعاون تقديم الدعم إلى القطاعات الفرعية لمصائد الأسماك والثروة الحيوانية وإنتاج المحاصيل فضلا عن تقديم المساعدة في مجالات سلامة الأغذية والأمن الغذائي والتغذية.

El Taller N acional de Formulación de Directrices Voluntarias de la FAO para Políticas Agroambientales en América Latina buscó reunir las percepciones de expertos en diferentes áreas (pesca, pecuario, agricultura, bosques, seguridad alimentaria y nutricional) para que, no sólo se congregaran entorno a preguntas detonantes que dieran cabida al debate sobre el contexto actual nacional, sino que se logrará apunta r a puntos conver gentes, divergentes y se lo grara llegar a una sistematización de recomendaciones.

This publication is a compilation of presentations and recommendations resulting from the Global Conference on Inland Fisheries: Freshwater, Fish and the Future, convened at FAO HQ in January 2015 and is part of an MOU signed with Michigan State University. Contents include scientific papers on inland fisheries from a global perspective that cover biological and socio-cultural assessments, drivers and governance issues. Ten steps to responsible inland fisheries are included along with recommendations for their implementation.

Cooperation between Togo and FAO began with an inventory of land and water resources in 1960, the year Togo country joined the Organization. A representation was opened in 1980, after which the partnership focused on agricultural development, environmental protection and natural resource management. Along with a number of development projects, FAO has supported institutional reform and assisted with the National Agricultural Investment and Food Security Plans. Largely dependent on rain-fed agriculture, Togo is vulnerable to climate change largely rain.

The IYS is to be a major platform for raising awareness of the importance of soils for food security and nutrition and essential eco-system functions.

Small forest and farm producers manage a third of the world’s forests. Together, these smallholder families, indigenous people and local communities are the world’s largest investors in forests. They are key to sustainable forest and farm management and have a critical role to play in the success of global concerns such as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+), climate change adaptation and green growth. Yet all too often their voices go unheard.