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FAO Asia-Pacific honours sustainability champions on World Soil Day 2023, but urges more action is needed
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today acknowledged two important global awards granted to experts working to preserve and enhance soil health in the Asia-Pacific region, while calling for further action to safeguard soils vital for our survival. The intrinsic interplay between soil and water, essential for sustaining life on Earth, faces a critical threat in the Asia-Pacific region. The escalating trend of soil degradation, fueled by...
Asia-Pacific sends a strong message to COP28 – transformation towards an inclusive and resilient agrifood system is critical to achieving global climate goals and tackling undernutrition
An inclusive and resilient agrifood system is needed in the world’s most populous region if the global climate objectives are to be realized, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported today at the conclusion of the Asia-Pacific Climate Week, a large regional prelude to the upcoming UN global climate conference, COP28, in Dubai later this month.  The Asia-Pacific Climate Week (APCW) brought together more than a thousand...
Investment to restore Asia’s degraded forests and landscapes critical to achieving global climate and biodiversity targets and safeguarding livelihoods
Building momentum toward greater investment in Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) in Asia - involving both public and private sectors - is critical to meet the challenges of climate change and secure millions of livelihoods across the region, an FLR investment forum heard today. While some progress has been made in reforestation efforts in Asia and the Pacific, the region has continued to witness a decline in natural forests in recent...
Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems: China, Iran and Republic of Korea get new designations, while two in Europe – Andorra and Austria – earn their first
Ginger and waxberries in China, flood-spreading gardens and a walnut cultivating region in Iran, and an all-female fishery in the Republic of Korea are among the newest sites selected to achieve the titles of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS). The three countries in Asia have become the latest additions to the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS), which were formally designated during a meeting of the GIAHS Scientific Advisory Group...
Multi-stakeholder collaboration to strengthen sustainability and resilience of livestock systems in response to drivers of change
The 13th Multi-Stakeholder Partnership (MSP) Meeting of the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock (GASL) and the Regional Conference on Sustainable Livestock Transformation kicked off today in Chiang Mai, Thailand, running until 3 November 2023. Around 240 participants from 50 countries, including ministers and vice-ministers, high-level officials, farmers’ and producers ‘organizations, civil society organizations, private sectors, academia, and financial institutions from Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, North America, and Oceania convened...
Youth, innovators, and policymakers from Asia-Pacific join the World Food Forum 2023 to step-up actions for food system transformation
Young people from Asia and the Pacific converged at the FAO headquarters in Rome from 16-20 October for the World Food Forum while hundreds more joined the forum virtually to inspire individual and collective actions for agrifood system transformation. The World Food Forum (WFF) is a youth-led movement and network to transform our agrifood systems that is committed to the theme: “Agrifood systems transformation accelerates climate action.” Similar to the global...
Delegation from Iran visits China to study landscape rehabilitation practices
Through the support of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Global Environment Facility (GEF) project “Rehabilitation of Forest Landscapes and Degraded Land”, the Islamic Republic of Iran's National Resource and Watershed Organization (NRWO), embarked on a study tour this month to China focusing on forest landscape rehabilitation. The study tour provided Iranian delegates an opportunity to share their knowledge and experiences in dryland ecosystem and natural...
World Food Forum: Bridging technological gaps in Low- and Middle-Income Countries and Small Island Developing States
Science and Innovation Forum event focuses on how to pave the way for investment and innovation in developing countries amid worsening impacts of climate crisis
19.10.2023 Rome
World Food Forum: Bridging technological gaps in Low- and Middle-Income Countries and Small Island Developing States
Making data, information, knowledge, investment and innovation available for all, especially for Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS), will be a game changer in transforming global agrifood systems to make them more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable. This was a key takeaway from a special event focused on enabling research, science, and innovation in LMICs and SIDS organised by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United...
Samoa Celebrates World Food and Animal Day 2023
The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MAF) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) joined forces today to commemorate FAO World Food and Animal Day 2023 and the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries' Open Day. It is the first time in the country that these two events have been honored simultaneously, with the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries in the forefront of promoting local food production and food security in...
On International Day of Rural Women, Asia and the Pacific is advancing inclusive opportunities to achieve an agrifood systems transformation
Inclusive opportunities to break barriers to ensure gender equality, improve access to water resources, and promote financial inclusion for rural women are vital to achieve the 2030 Agenda, a webinar hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, aligning with this year’s theme for International Day of Rural Women. More than one third of the world’s working women are engaged...