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El Niño has made its presence felt in Southeast Asia and is projected to persist for at least the next three months. In July, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) officially declared the presence of El Niño conditions for the first time in seven years, setting the stage for a surge in global temperatures and disruptive weather and climate patterns. The next three to six months are critical as the region braces...

The convergence of higher food, feed and fuel prices, and a slow recovery from the global pandemic, has done serious harm to the health and livelihoods of millions of already vulnerable people in the Asia-Pacific region, a new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has revealed. During the COVID-19 pandemic and the “5Fs” crisis – Food, Feed, Fuel, Fertilizers and Finance – the region witnessed...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) have joined forces to cultivate capacities in sustainable millet value chain development within the context of the International Year of Millet-2023. This collaboration, conducted under the FAO South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) framework, aims to foster knowledge exchange and development experiences between India, and other countries of Asia and Africa. As part of...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today acknowledged two important global awards granted to experts working to preserve and enhance soil health in the Asia-Pacific region, while calling for further action to safeguard soils vital for our survival. The intrinsic interplay between soil and water, essential for sustaining life on Earth, faces a critical threat in the Asia-Pacific region. The escalating trend of soil degradation, fueled by...

An inclusive and resilient agrifood system is needed in the world’s most populous region if the global climate objectives are to be realized, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported today at the conclusion of the Asia-Pacific Climate Week, a large regional prelude to the upcoming UN global climate conference, COP28, in Dubai later this month.  The Asia-Pacific Climate Week (APCW) brought together more than a thousand...

Building momentum toward greater investment in Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) in Asia - involving both public and private sectors - is critical to meet the challenges of climate change and secure millions of livelihoods across the region, an FLR investment forum heard today. While some progress has been made in reforestation efforts in Asia and the Pacific, the region has continued to witness a decline in natural forests in recent...

Ginger and waxberries in China, flood-spreading gardens and a walnut cultivating region in Iran, and an all-female fishery in the Republic of Korea are among the newest sites selected to achieve the titles of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS). The three countries in Asia have become the latest additions to the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS), which were formally designated during a meeting of the GIAHS Scientific Advisory Group...

The 13th Multi-Stakeholder Partnership (MSP) Meeting of the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock (GASL) and the Regional Conference on Sustainable Livestock Transformation kicked off today in Chiang Mai, Thailand, running until 3 November 2023. Around 240 participants from 50 countries, including ministers and vice-ministers, high-level officials, farmers’ and producers ‘organizations, civil society organizations, private sectors, academia, and financial institutions from Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, North America, and Oceania convened...

Young people from Asia and the Pacific converged at the FAO headquarters in Rome from 16-20 October for the World Food Forum while hundreds more joined the forum virtually to inspire individual and collective actions for agrifood system transformation. The World Food Forum (WFF) is a youth-led movement and network to transform our agrifood systems that is committed to the theme: “Agrifood systems transformation accelerates climate action.” Similar to the global...

Through the support of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Global Environment Facility (GEF) project “Rehabilitation of Forest Landscapes and Degraded Land”, the Islamic Republic of Iran's National Resource and Watershed Organization (NRWO), embarked on a study tour this month to China focusing on forest landscape rehabilitation. The study tour provided Iranian delegates an opportunity to share their knowledge and experiences in dryland ecosystem and natural...