This webinar, co-organized by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, introduced the Framework for Action on Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture approved by the FAO Council in December of last year. The webinar p...

FAO calls for the agriculture and food sectors to be recognized for their fundamental role in ensuring the conservation, sustainable use, and restoration of biodiversity.

Geneva, Switzerland – Negotiations between the 196 Parties to the UN Conven...

 The Global Environment Facility (GEF) announced a US $5.25 billion replenishment for GEF-8, the next four-year phase of the GEF.  A nearly 30 percent over GEF-7, it will be the largest replenishment in the history of the GEF. 

它们被制成保持皮肤光滑的乳液，或是周日下午啜饮的草药茶。它们将被浇在沙拉上，或被制成我们每天服用的食品补充剂。野生植物在日常生活中随处可见，为我们提供食物、氧气和药物。在全球范围内，估计有35亿至58亿人使用野生植物，他们处于不同社会经济阶层和地理区域，有10亿人依靠野生食物维持生计和粮食安全。

为人类提供日常所需大部分热量的植物其实并不多，种类单一的程度让人震惊。事实上，作为食物栽培的水果和蔬菜成千上万，但其中只有不到200种在全球粮食生产中仍有一席之地。然而，由于气候变化、物种入侵、环境污染、城市扩张和土地过度使用，如果这些我们过度依赖的物种越来越疲弱，产量越来越低，甚至在未来灭绝，结果又会如何？数以千计曾经养育过我们祖先的植物物种和品种已经灭绝，而且这份名单上的内容每一天都在增加。生物多样性可以说是粮食生产的生物保险，正是作物的多样性使人类的粮食体系得以保持健全和韧性，有能力抵御这些现实的威胁。

The world’s food security depends on biodiversity: from domesticated crop varieties and livestock breeds, to wild species such as bees and earthworms that live in and around production systems, to whole ecosystems such as forests, grasslands, seagrass beds and coral reefs. However, much of ...

On the occasion of Biodiversity Day, the International Treaty has just issued a new call for project proposals to be supported by the Benefit-sharing Fund. The fifth round of the Benefit-sharing Fund (BSF) will disburse over USD 7 million to projects that benefit small-scale farmers in developing...

Today there is less food security, less health security, less economic security and greater inequality.

By recognizing the importance of multilateralism in tackling the multiple crises facing today’s world. Stockholm+50 will act as a springboard to accelerate the implementation o...

The Food and Agriculture organization of the UN led events at Stockholm+50 that presented solutions to halt environmental degradation through the transformation of our agrifood systems

2 June 2022, Stockholm, Sweden – “Stockholm+50 is an opportunit...

UNDP Regional Goodwill Ambassador completes an excruciating feat to raise awareness about the climate emergency and food security.

Paralyzed from the chest down Michael Haddad, Regional Goodwill Ambassador, Michael Haddad, yesterday defied all odds to achieve the im...

联合国粮食及农业组织（粮农组织）理事会第一七〇届会议行使本组织大会执行机构职能，在本周一和周二于罗马举行的会议上批准了《科学与创新战略》和《气候变化战略》，指引粮农组织在未来十年围绕气候变化与科学、技术和创新开展工作，助力扭转饥饿人数逐渐攀升的态势，应对日益加剧的全球粮食安全威胁。

Through clear Arctic skies, the small plane carrying 10 precious boxes of seeds from Spain arrived at Svalbard airport on the morning of the 7th of June. Two days later a box arrived from Lithuania. It was an occasion for the two countries to celebrate.

Billions of people, in developed and developing nations, benefit daily from the use of wild species for food, energy, materials, medicine, recreation, inspiration and many other vital contributions to human well-being. The accelerating global biodiversity crisis, with a million species of plants ...

“全球重要农业文化遗产系统”（GIAHS）正式认定日本两处遗产地：以日本最大的湖泊为中心的内陆渔业及水田耕作系统，以及被认为是日本葡萄种植发源地的传统水果种植区。

Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (hereinafter ‘the convention’) have held workshops, consultations and formal negotiations (CBD, 2018) to develop a ‘Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework’ (hereinafter ‘the framework’). The framework establish...

The final chapters are much more detailed, with many new examples from around the world. The final chapters also provide a range of valuable additional evidence and policy options in advance of the many major global environmental negotiations this year, including COP 27 of the Climate Conventi...

2022年是联合国粮食及农业组织(粮农组织) 全球重要农业文化遗产 (GIAHS) 20周年。2002年，在可持续发展问题世界首脑会议（南非，约翰内斯堡）期间，粮农组织发起了一项 “全球重要农业文化遗产系统(GIAHS)”的全球伙伴关系倡议。自成立以来，GIAHS遗产地的数量不断增加。 

Biodiversity is at the centre of the biggest issues the world faces: from climate change to poverty eradication, food and water security, health and sustainable development.

FAO in Geneva, in close collaboration with the FAO Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment in Rome, is organizing a hybrid briefing on the upcoming UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15). As several objectives of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) are closely linked to a...

联合国粮食及农业组织（粮农组织）今天举行活动，庆祝全球重要农业文化遗产系统 （GIAHS）这一旗舰计划实施二十周年。该计划有效推动了农业可持续发展和乡村振兴，助力为全球众多人口保障粮食安全。