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Rashed est particulièrement heureux ce matin. Aujourd’hui, lui et ses confrères agriculteurs ont à leur tour accès au puits fonctionnant à l’énergie solaire pour irriguer leurs exploitations. «Je suis un paysan, et l’agriculture, c’est toute ma vie. L’un de mes plus [...]

Rashed est particulièrement heureux ce matin. Aujourd’hui, lui et ses confrères agriculteurs ont à leur tour accès au puits fonctionnant à l’énergie solaire pour irriguer leurs exploitations. «Je suis un paysan, et l’agriculture, c’est toute ma vie. L’un de mes plus [...]

As the novel Coronavirus known as COVID-19 continues to spread in developed and developing countries alike, not all have the privilege of applying basic prevention measures, and energy and food play a key role in several of these. Almost one billion [...]

Putting on the kettle for your afternoon tea? Sipping a cup of green tea to strengthen your immune system? Have you ever thought that changes in the way your tea is produced could be beneficial to the changing climate? A new FAO [...]

Vous voyez le monde en chiffres ? Vous étudiez les graphiques comme un amateur d'art étudie Renoir ? Vous aimez les statistiques sous toutes leurs formes ? Eh bien, la FAO aussi ! Lorsqu'il s'agit de données sur l'alimentation et [...]

The ongoing crisis in Syria has severely affected rural livelihoods prompting FAO to restore energy access to households for agricultural activities. FAO aims to increase the resilience of hundreds of families by implementing egg incubators with inverter/chargers, batteries and solar photovoltaic panels [...]

What is energy data used for? What types of energy data are needed? What indicators are currently used and which methodologies do organisations use? ...and where is data stored? These questions were at the heart of the webinar "Moving towards [...]

Using the Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) Sustainability Indicators, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) project “Building capacity for enhancing bioenergy sustainability through the use of Global Bioenergy Partnership Indicators” assessed the environmental, social and economic impacts of bioenergy production in Ethiopia [...]

In Maiduguri, Borno State, Bakassi is a sprawling camp for the internally displaced. Before the insurgency, it was planned as a ministerial village for government officials but today, hundreds of half-constructed red-roofed houses are home to thousands of internally displaced [...]

Sustainable bioenergy and forest landscape restoration (FLR) can be mutually beneficial. FAO recently organized national dialogues in Togo and Ghana on sustainable wood energy, bioenergy alternatives and Forest Landscape Restoration, to guide policies and support the development of a joint agenda [...]