Especially in the food we eat. A new animation from FAOWater illustrates how important water is to food security.

The World Food Prize Foundation is calling for nominations for the Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application - a new $10,000 annual award, endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation.

The World Bank recently launched an electronic sourcebook to capture the expanding knowledge and use of information and communication technology in developing country agriculture and is partnering with FAO to engage practitioners via the e-Agriculture community website.

The United Nations Environment Programme, in partnership with TreeHugger, is sponsoring a free trip to Brazil for a winning blogger to write, blog and tweet about World Environment Day on June 5.