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Les algues marines sont un produit précieux pour les 25 000 agriculteurs de Zanzibar qui en dépendent, et dont 80 pour cent sont des femmes. Mais les changements climatiques provoquent une hausse des températures, avec de lourdes conséquences sur nos océans. La hausse [...]

On the eve of 2020, governments will submit updated and enhanced nationally determined contributions to remain within the limit of a 2°C temperature increase as per the Paris agreement of 2015. Building on FAO's regional-level analyses of the NDCs, the report [...]

The Seychelles Government is working to increase the share of renewable energy in the electricity matrix to 5 percent by 2020 and 15 percent by 2030. Could residues from the agriculture and agro-processing sectors, including waste provide an alternative? While policies [...]

Conocer los avances de la integración de la bioeconomía sostenible en cada país; recoger insumos para continuar con el trabajo; y a la vez propiciar el diálogo interinstitucional entre agentes nacionales e internacionales a través del intercambio de experiencias y [...]

Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) annual meetings review achievements in 2019 and make plans for the year ahead Rome – More work on woody biomass for forest landscape restoration and sustainable livelihoods, and greater involvement of young people in the Global Bioenergy Partnership [...]

Nairobi, Kenya: Discussions on the need for durable solutions in displacement settings, including economic and social integration of refugees among host communities, while ensuring sustainable energy and environment solutions, took centre stage in Nairobi this week. Humanitarian and development actors in [...]

The new technical report, ‘Indicators to monitor and evaluate the sustainability of bioeconomy. Overview and a proposed way forward’, offers technical assistance to countries and stakeholders in monitoring and evaluating the sustainability of the bioeconomy through nine carefully explained steps. The [...]

How can we feed the world’s growing population without compromising sustainability and climate goals? The cost-benefit analyses described in the latest INVESTA report ‘Measuring impacts and enabling investments in energy-smart agrifood chains’ targets policy makers, international finance institutions and investors. It [...]

This year’s Bioenergy Week was organized through FAO by the Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) and was hosted by the Government of the Philippines in Manila, from 25 to 27 June. “The event really stressed the importance of reinforcing collaboration between the [...]

In January 2016, the Horizon 2020-funded project, FORBIO (Fostering Sustainable Feedstock Production for Advanced Biofuels on underutilized land in Europe), composed of a consortium of 12 partners, including FAO, used the Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) Sustainability Indicators as entry point [...]