Making agriculture resilience for climate change The Global Framework for Action to Cope with Water Scarcity in Agriculture in the Context of Climate Change (in short, the Global Framework on Water Scarcity in Agriculture, WASAG) has been designed to bring together key players across [...]

Date & Time: 3 october 2022 |13:00 – 14:30 hours (CEST) The International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (IDDRR), annually celebrated on 13 October since 2009, promotes global awareness about the prevention and reduction of disaster risk and disaster losses in lives, [...]

          21 July 2022 | 12:15  – 13:45  (CEST)                                                               COAG SIDE EVENT HIGH-LEVEL PANEL DISCUSSION FAO Science and Innovation Strategy and its relevance for the Committee on Agriculture (COAG)                                                                HYBRID EVENT SHEIKH ZAYED CENTRE AND ZOOM Please register here   Following the endorsement of [...]

In 2019 and 2020 alone, sub-Saharan Africa was hit by a once-in-a-century desert locust upsurge and the COVID-19 pandemic while simultaneously facing conflict, droughts, and floods among other shocks and stressors. More than 60 percent of the population in sub-Saharan [...]

Around the world storms, floods and wildfires are intensifying. Air pollution sadly affects the health of tens of millions of people and unpredictable weather causes untold damage to homes and livelihoods too. But while the impacts of climate change are [...]