Getting ready for La Niña, progress and challenges to measure its impact on agri-food systems
April 25th, 2024
On April 18th, 2024, FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean organized the Event “Getting ready for La Niña, advances and challenges to measure its impact on agri-food systems”, in which international experts presented and more than 500 people attended virtually from all over the world and invited Dr. Jaime Letelier IFOP oceanography and environment department’s head to speak.
Dr. Letelier presented the detrimental effects that “El Niño 2023/24” has brought on northern Chile fishing sector, as well as evidence that the event has not yet withdrawn from National coasts and how potentially “La Niña” Event ” Forecast for 2024, it could affect national fishing resources.
Dr. Letelier highlighted Fisheries Development Institute’s commitment during its 60 years to carry out national fisheries annual diagnosis, always within the context of the ocean’s normal annual variability and its ecosystems and, as at present, within climatic change context, it has become necessary to reanalyze the historical record to understand
the present and generate future diagnoses.
In addition, it showed the effort made to understand and prepare for these events through the S.A.P.O Initiative, in conjunction with Peru and Ecuador as well as GEF Humboldt 2 project where Binational working groups from Peru and Chile promote joint efforts to understand the impacts of the environment on fisheries.
“If we had a longer period towards a normal transition period (…) we should have a relatively expected ecological response (…) but this abrupt change probably generates a greater stressor and from that point of view we have uncertainty about how ecological systems will respond.,” said Jaime Letelier, Fisheries Development Institute (IFOP) Oceanography head at Government of Chile (Source t13).
“Getting ready for La Niña, progress and challenges to measure its impact on agri-food systems”
(https://www.fao.org/americas/events/event-detail/preparing-for-la-nina/es)
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