Venezuela welcomes the appointment of Nicaragua as vice-president of the FAO forum

The Foreign Minister of the Republic, Félix Plasencia, congratulated Nicaragua on being elected vice president of the 37th Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

“The Republic of Nicaragua was elected Vice President of the 37th FAO Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean, which is the result of its commitment to building efficient and innovative systems in food matters. Congratulations!” Plasencia wrote on Twitter.

The conference seeks to highlight the agri-food sector as the key to get out of the crisis.

The member countries of FAO, during the event, unanimously approved the Strategic Framework 2022-2031, which calls for supporting the 2030 Agenda through the transformation towards more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agri-food systems, to achieve better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life, leaving no one behind.

This Wednesday, the ministerial sessions on the occasion of the 37th FAO Regional Conference began in Quito, Ecuador, in which aspects of spaces to promote the protection and improvement of the environment with proposals for agri-food systems adapted to climate change will be addressed. and that mitigate its effects and initiatives towards an inclusive rural transformation and for the reduction of poverty and inequalities in that sector.