The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Agrometeorology, Hydrology and Meteorology Regional Center (AGRHYMET), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel (OSS) and SERVIR West Africa have launched today the new publication West African Land Cover Reference System...

The Stockholm World Water Week is a leading conference on global water issues that explores new ways of managing water to tackle humanity’s greatest challenges: from food security and health to agriculture, technology, biodiversity, and climate. Water is a fundamental resource enabling food and nutrition security. Although nutritious food is a...

The new FAO publication "Guidelines for the calculation of the agriculture water use efficiency for global reporting" is now available. These guidelines are intended to assist countries in understanding and computing the agronomic parameters involved in the calculation of the agricultural component of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicator 6.4.1 on...

The Webinar “Understanding the basics of environmental Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) for national action" is part of the “Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment Webinar Series” produced by the Quadripartite of FAO, UNEP, WHO and WOAH, to address health threats at the human-animal-plant-environment interface and to promote health and sustainable development. This webinar series...

To mark the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, FAO, the Land Portal and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification and Drought (UNCCD) have come together to launch a new portfolio and podcast delving into the important relationship between land tenure and Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN). One third of the...

From 4 to 9 June, FAO supported the 2nd High-Level International Conference on the International Decade for Action “Water for Sustainable Development 2018-2028”, in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. As member of the International Advisory Committee, FAO co-convened in the Dushanbe process featuring various High-Level sessions, thematic sessions, and in the Indigenous peoples...

The next SDG 6.4 two-week online training course is a unique opportunity for all water and statistic professionals, or people involved or interested in monitoring the indicators of SDG Target 6.4 from Lusophone countries, because the training will be held in Portuguese.  The training consists of four sessions (each lasts for...

The Second High-Level International Conference on the Implementation of the International Decade for Action “Water for Sustainable Development, 2018-2028” from 6 to 9 June 2022 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, aims to catalyze water actions and partnerships at the local, national, regional and global levels for the implementation of water-related goals...