Climate Change

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FAO-led Green Climate Fund projects create opportunities for women to have a better, more sustainable life in Nepal and the Gambia

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FAO Director-General stresses importance of sustainable investments and empowering local communities

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How SCALA is strengthening gender-responsive climate action from local practices to national frameworks

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A one stop-shop for decision-makers developing national and regional bioeconomy strategies.

FAO's work on climate change

Climate change threatens our ability to ensure global food security, eradicate poverty and achieve sustainable development. In 2016, 31 percent of global emissions originating from human activity came from agrifood systems. This includes deforestation, livestock production, soil and nutrient management, and food loss and waste. The increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases are trapping more heat in the atmosphere, which causes global warming.

Climate change has both direct and indirect impacts on agrifood systems due to shifting and unpredictable rainfall patterns and temperatures, a higher incidence of extreme weather events and disasters such as drought, floods, outbreaks of pests and disease and ocean acidification.

FAO is supporting countries to adapt to climate change and to mitigate climate change by reducing or preventing greenhouse gas emissions, through its projects and programmes and a wide range of knowledge products.

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