FAO's participation at COP16 in Cali, Colombia, spotlighted the essential role of agrifood systems in advancing biodiversity goals. Under the theme "Peace with Nature," FAO engaged leaders to prioritize sustainable agriculture in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, supporting global efforts to combat biodiversity loss and climate change. Through numerous events and partnerships, FAO emphasized transformative agrifood solutions to secure a sustainable future.

Rome – In anticipation of COP29, FAO has released a new report examining biodiversity actions within agrifood systems in countries' NDCs. Findings reveal critical opportunities to align climate action with biodiversity and food security, especially by addressing gaps in aquaculture and non-forest ecosystems.

Joint Op-Ed by COP16 President and Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development Susana Muhamad and Kaveh Zahedi, Director of FAO Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment.

承前启后、继往开来，在国家生物多样性战略和行动计划中突出农业粮食体系要素，切实落实COP 15期间达成的里程碑式承诺

The 2024 UN Biodiversity Conference, including the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), will be held in Cali, Colombia from 21 October to 1 November 2024.

哥伦比亚结合农业生物多样性与传统知识，对抗气候变化

In this interview, Kaveh Zahedi, Director of the Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), explains that FAO’s advocates for placing agrifood system solutions at the heart of the global efforts to tackle climate change while safeguarding rural livelihoods.

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The 2024 UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP16) will open in a couple of days in Cali, Colombia and will be the first Conference of the Parties (COP) since the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF). In the lead up to COP16, the fifth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI-5) started today, with the objective to review the preparation of national targets and the alignment of national biodiversity strategies and action plans (NBSAPs) with the KMGBF. 

第五个国际粮食损失和浪费问题宣传日纪念活动将强调需要加大融资力度，助力减少粮食损失和浪费、促进实现气候目标、推进落实《2030年可持续发展 议程》。

On land as in water, there can be no food security without biodiversity: it allows plants and animals to reproduce and grow, adapt to natural and human-induced impacts, resist diseases and parasites, and continue to evolve. Aquatic biodiversity is the basis on which aquaculture can exist and grow sustainably.

哥伦比亚农村发展的持久成果为冲突幸存者赋能

全球重要农业文化遗产科学咨询小组今天召开会议，并正式认定奥地利独特的塘养鲤鱼系统、印度尼西亚巴厘岛的蛇鳞果种植系统以及圣多美和普林西比的可可农林系统为全球重要农业文化遗产。

杀虫剂使用对生物多样性和人类健康造成的负面影响日益引发关切，与此同时，生物多样性友好型产品的需求不断增加。人们日益关注替代性有害生物防治手段，尤其是使用微生物和无脊椎动物生物控制剂开展防治工作。粮食和农业遗传资源委员会（遗传委）第十九届例会审议了微生物和无脊椎动物生物控制剂以及微生物生物刺激素的保护及可持续利用问题

Please join us at the launch of AquaGRIS, the world’s first public online database of farmed aquatic species and their wild relatives, developed by FAO in collaboration with countries, scientific experts and stakeholders through a consultative process spanning five years.  Watch the webcast 

非洲美食富于生物多样性，传统深厚，犹如绚丽多姿的织锦，其背后却蕴藏着被遗忘的食物宝库。适应非洲当地环境的作物曾经是非洲大陆多元文化的核心代表，在世界应对粮食安全、气候变化和环境可持续性等紧迫挑战之际，重新聚焦这些作物意义深远。

Besta Pulum手持平板电脑，兴奋之情溢于言表。身为社区领袖的他表示：“我年轻的时候，从未见过这种电脑，现在看到了，激动得睡不着觉。”他的年龄据他自己说在60岁左右。

The First Session of the Ad Hoc Expert Team on Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture opened on 2 July 2024. The Expert Team was established by the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture in 2023 to review issues related to biodiversity for food and agriculture (BFA) and advise and make recommendations to the Commission on these matters.

The revised – unedited – draft of the Second Report on Forest Genetic Resources is now out for review. The Second Report builds on the first global assessment, published by FAO in 2014, and analyses the progress made in the implementation of the Global Plan of Action for the Conservation, Sustainable Use and Development of Forest Genetic Resources, adopted by the FAO Conference in 2013.

土地承载着人类的过去、现在和未来。营养丰富的食物，欣欣向荣的生态系统，农业的传承和生计，这一切都依赖于健康肥沃的土地。然而，缺乏可持续性的农业发展模式、城市化快速推进、干旱日益频繁且更为持久，造成全球每年平均有1亿公顷土地发生退化。旱地作为独特的生态系统，占全球土地面积40%以上。然而，随着土地退化和气候变化，旱地荒漠化和生物多样性丧失的风险与日俱增。