FAO’s component of the Global COVID-19 Humanitarian Response Plan
19/05/2020
At the beginning of April, the 2020 edition of the Global Report on Food Crises was issued, presenting a stark warning for the future. In 2019 – prior to the COVID-19 pandemic – 135 million people experienced Crisis (Integrated Food [...]
Moving forward on food loss and waste reduction
14/10/2019
Today many are aware of the need to reduce food losses and waste. With a specific goal on halving food waste while reducing losses, the 2030 Agenda is also quite vocal about the issue. But beside being a goal in its [...]
04/04/2019
Thursday 4 April14.30 - 15.45 (Rome Time)Sheikh Zayed Center, FAO headquarters, Rome
The event is organized by the Platform for Agricultural Risk Management (PARM), a G7-G20 Initiative, hosted by the International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) and the Food and Agriculture [...]
21/03/2019
What exactly does "livelihoods diversification" mean? Diversification refers to those individual, household, and community level strategies and objectives that are pursued alongside, or in lieu of, traditional agricultural activities to diversify income streams and reduce risk.5 Livelihoods diversification is the approach [...]
Successful approaches from different regions
21/12/2018
This publication presents different climate-smart approaches for the agricultural sectors to achieve the three pillars of climate-smart agriculture (CSA):
to sustainably increase agricultural productivity and improve the incomes and livelihoods of farmers;
to build resilience and adaptation to climate change;
to reduce and/or [...]