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How does climate change affect vulnerable rural populations? Webinar presents a report that reveals heterogeneous climate impacts on the rural poor, women and youth
02/05/2024
Developing policies for inclusive rural transformation processes requires a deeper understanding of how climate change impacts vulnerable rural populations, such as women, youth, and those in poverty. However, there's insufficient multi-country evidence on how weather shocks and climate change...
STAT SANOI data platform: revolutionizing food security and nutrition monitoring in the Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles
27/04/2024
Is it time to reconsider using poverty headcounts to describe poverty levels in society?
08/04/2024
A recent webinar held by the
Assessing living income standards in Cameroonian cacao villages
22/03/2024
As part of the implementation of the Global Sustainable Cocoa Initiative (SCI), and in alignment with
Creating sustainability through the integration of environmental and socioeconomic domains
09/03/2024
Building upon the achievements of its previous three conferences, and in commemoration of its 20th anniversary, The Global Environmental Facility (GEF)’s Independent Evaluation Office ga...
Hand-in-Hand mission to Cuba explores key investment opportunities in agriculture
08/03/2024
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently carried out a mission to Cuba that delved into the island nation's burgeoning agricultural sector, unveiling a series of investment initiatives aimed at boosting the country's agricultural productivity and food availabi...
Is it time to reconsider using poverty headcounts to describe poverty levels in society? Webinar presents a new set of indices to assessing poverty while accounting for income inequality
08/03/2024
A recent webinar held by the Technical Network on Poverty Analysis (THINK-PA) presented a paper titled "
New study identifies priorities for agricultural development in Guatemala
29/02/2024
A recent study published in Spanish by FAO and entitled “Tipología de microrregiones en el sector agrícola de Guatemala: Una herramienta para priorizar inversiones en el marco de la Iniciativa Mano de la Mano” has unveiled an in-de...
Regional foresight exercises first phase implementation in all five FAO regions
15/12/2023
Responding to calls by the 28th Committee on Agriculture and Member requests to reinforce FAO’s strategic foresight capacity, FAO is systematically conducting foresight exercises at corporate, regional, subregional and country ...
Finance to facilitate food systems transformation
11/12/2023
Are the food systems that nourish us also contributing to climate change, natural resource degradation and malnutrition? How can we leverage partnerships to leverage action on food system transformation an...