Media Release: IPBES Sustainable Use Assessment - 50,000 Wild Species Meet Needs of Billions Worldwide
08/07/2022
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 ...
Dos nuevos sitios de Japón son declarados Sistemas importantes del patrimonio agrícola mundial de la FAO
18/07/2022
Dos nuevos sitios de Japón, una zona de pesca continental y el sistema de cultivo de arroz asociado, situado en el mayor lago del país, así como un área de cultivo tradicional de frutas considerada la cuna del cultivo de uva japonés, han sido reconocidos formalmente como Sistemas importantes del ...
The CBD Post-2020 biodiversity framework: People's place within the rest of nature
06/10/2022
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...
Final chapters of the IPBES Values Assessment, and of the IPBES Sustainable Use of Wild Species Assessment now available
10/10/2022
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...
20 años del programa Sistemas Importantes del Patrimonio Agrícola Mundial
27/10/2022
2022 marca el vigésimo aniversario del Programa SIPAM de la FAO. La FAO lanzó la iniciativa SIPAM en la Cumbre Mundial sobre Desarrollo Sostenible celebrada en Johannesburgo en 2002. Desde sus inicios, el número de sistemas agrícolas reconocidos como SIPAM ha ido aumentando gradualmente.
Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: Enhancing Action on Climate and Implementation of the SDGs
17/11/2022
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: On the Road to the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15)
22/11/2022
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...
FAO’s Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) mark 20th anniversary
27/10/2022
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ (FAO) flagship programme of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) today celebrated its 20th anniversary, highlighting its role in promoting sustainable agriculture and revitalizing the rural communities who are ...
Sistemas importantes del patrimonio agrícola mundial: designaciones de sitios adicionales en China, México, Marruecos y España, y primer sitio designado en Tailandia
04/11/2022
Cinco nuevos sitios —una zona de cultivo de setas en China, un sistema agroforestal maya tradicional en México, una antigua comunidad que conecta a pastores y agricultores en Marruecos, un sistema agroalimentario de montaña diverso en España y un paisaje centrado en el búfalo en Tailandia— han si...