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Mainstreaming biodiversity across agricultural sectors in Uganda – Recommendations from stakeholder consultations 2024–2030. Rome.
18/11/2025
This publication on mainstreaming biodiversity across agricultural sectors in Uganda (2024–2030) promotes sustainable practices, community empowerment, and innovation to drive economic growth and environmental stewardship. By linking biodiversity-friendly production to markets and promoting responsible resource management, it aims to build a resilient future that safeguards natural wealth and well-being.
The Second Report on the State of the World's Forest Genetic Resource
26/03/2025
Forests and woodlands provide a huge array of essential benefits for people and the planet – such as hosting biodiversity, supporting livelihoods, protecting soils, regulating water cycles and mitigating climate change. At the heart of such benefits are forest genetic resources: the heritable materials maintained within and among tree and other woody plant species that are of actual or potential economic, environmental, scientific or societal value.
The Third Report on The State of the World’s Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
24/03/2025
Plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA) are the essence of sustainable agrifood systems. The third report on the State of the World’s Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture presents a comprehensive assessment of the conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA, as well as the human and institutional capacities to support these efforts.
Biodiversity and agrifood systems in nationally determined contributions
31/10/2024
As countries develop and revise their nationally determined contributions (NDCs), there is growing recognition of the need to integrate biodiversity considerations into them – particularly in the context of agrifood systems.
The Agri-NBSAPs Support Initiative: Supporting countries in their National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans for the agrifood sectors
29/10/2024
The Agri-NBSAPs Support Initiative, set to launch at the 2024 United Nations Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP16), is dedicated to advancing the integration of biodiversity into agrifood systems.
Delivering on the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework through agrifood systems
23/10/2024
Amid accelerating biodiversity loss and growing threats to ecosystems, sustainable agrifood systems can play a crucial role in reversing these trends while ensuring food security for a growing global population.
Bridging nature and climate through protection of primary forests with high ecological integrity
10/10/2024
This briefing focuses on the important role of primary forests in meeting climate and biodiversity goals.
Initiative on biodiversity for food and nutrition
01/10/2024
Current agrifood systems are affected by numerous crises, including biodiversity loss, food insecurity and malnutrition.
Environmental stewardship by small-scale fisheries
02/09/2024
Small-scale fisheries (SSF), including fishers and fishworkers together with their communities and organizations, are among the world’s most effective contributors to safeguarding aquatic resources and environments.
Action Plan for the implementation of the FAO Strategy on Mainstreaming Biodiversity Across Agricultural Sectors 2024–2027
01/05/2024
The Action Plan reflects experiences gained from the implementation of the 2021–2023 Action Plan.
The plants that feed the world - Baseline data and metrics to inform strategies for the conservation and use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture
06/11/2023
The availability of comprehensive and reliable information is crucial for developing evidence-based policies and strategies for the conservation and use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. This study was undertaken by a team of international experts to pool together information from a wide range of sources in a user-friendly manner and to develop a reproducible set of metrics and indicators, complementing existing indicators.
Innovations in cryoconservation of animal genetic resources
05/09/2023
Genetic diversity of livestock is a key resource for allowing livestock keepers to address these challenges, but this diversity has been in a state of decline.
The world’s mangroves 2000–2020
26/07/2023
This report provides global and regional estimates of the area covered by mangrove forests, including area changes between 2000 and 2020. It analyses the drivers of these global, regional and subregional changes for the periods 2000–2010 and 2010–2020 with the aim of improving understanding of these drivers, their interactions and how their relative importance has shifted over time.
Sustainable use and conservation of invertebrate pollinators
26/06/2023
Building on global assessments addressing pollinators published in 2016 and 2019, respectively, by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and FAO, this study provides up-to-date information on the status and trends of invertebrate pollinators, maps relevant regional and international initiatives, and identifies gaps and needs.
Diversity of bees and wild pollinators in the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam
05/06/2023
A survey on the diversity of bees and wild pollinators and the status of the bee industry was conducted in the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam. The profiles of the beekeepers, threats to beekeeping, and conservation strategies for pollinators are discussed in this paper.
FAO regional dialogue on biodiversity mainstreaming across agricultural sectors in Europe and Central Asia
25/04/2023
The Regional Dialogue addressed the potential for collaborative actions among the different sectors and across countries, and the role of the FAO REU guidance. Moreover, it engaged stakeholders in consultations on the regional Action Plan for the Mainstreaming Biodiversity across Agricultural Sectors in Eastern European and Central Asian countries.
