Noticias

22/09/2023
Kaveh Zahedi, leading FAO’s Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment is attending high-level events at the UN General Assembly and events in partnership with businesses, climate philanthropists and other stakeholders, as part of Climate Week NYC. He bears a clear message for c...
19/09/2023
 En el segundo día de la Cumbre de las Naciones Unidas sobre los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (Cumbre sobre los ODS) y justo antes del debate general, QU Dongyu, Director General de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), celebró un diálogo m...
12/09/2023
The first-ever Global Symposium on Farmers' Rights under the International Treaty of the FAO was inaugurated by the Honourable President of India, Ms Droupadi Murmu, in New Delhi today,  amidst an audience of over 700 people from 52 countries, marking a crucial milestone in the global agricu...
06/08/2023

13 - 15 December 2023 (9:30 - 17.00 CET)

GIAHS sites are home to unique biodiversity and agrobiodiversity, which have been nurtured by farmers for generations by transmitting their traditional knowledge and agricultural methods. This workshop thus seeks to foster information exchange, ac...

25/07/2023
The second day of the United Nations Food Systems Summit +2 Stocktaking Moment started with a special plenary session led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) which focused on the successes and challenges that countries, organizations and other stakeholders have ex...
24/07/2023
Este lunes se dio inicio al Momento para hacer balance de la Cumbre de las Naciones Unidas sobre los Sistemas Alimentarios dos años después de su celebración (Momento para hacer balance de los sistemas alimentarios) en la Sede de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Ag...
21/07/2023
CABI’s expertise in the role that Digital Sequence Information (DSI) plays in the conservation and sustainable use of genetic resources for food and agriculture has been shared at a Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) event in Rome, Italy.
17/07/2023
La Comisión de Recursos Genéticos para la Alimentación y la Agricultura, el único órgano intergubernamental que se ocupa de todas las cuestiones relacionadas específicamente con la biodiversidad para la alimentación y la agricultura, celebra su 40.º aniversario, y la importancia de su trabajo se ...
10/07/2023

This year FAO’s Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture turns 40. Its vision to value and conserve biodiversity for food and agriculture and promote its sustainable use in support of global food security and sustainable development, for present and future generations, is...

06/07/2023
Se han reconocido formalmente tres nuevos sitios en Asia como Sistemas importantes del patrimonio agrícola mundial (SIPAM), lo cual pone de manifiesto la importante función que desempeñan las prácticas agrícolas centenarias del continente en la alimentación de la creciente población mundial.
03/07/2023
Today, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, and the Mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri, launched the FAO Park - Global Library of Trees and Flowers project, a green space initiative to educate the public about the importance of biodiv...
03/07/2023
The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, re-elected on Sunday for a second term at the head of the Organizat...
27/06/2023
El Fondo para el Medio Ambiente Mundial (FMAM) ha aprobado hoy 26 proyectos dirigidos por la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), aprovechando el creciente impulso para afrontar los problemas ambientales abordando las formas en que se producen nuestros ...
26/06/2023
Los jóvenes en Bhután encuentran nuevas profesiones en la agricultura tras la pandemia de la enfermedad por coronavirus (COVID 19)
16/06/2023

Agrifood systems must be part of the solution to the loss of biodiversity and the climate crisis facing our planet, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, today told a meeting of G20 Agriculture Ministers. 

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02/06/2023
The Dean's Global Food and Agriculture Leadership Program of the Iowa State University presents a special seminar on Innovations in breeding livestock for adaptation to climate change: Genome editing in livestock Challenges in animal phenotyping.
30/05/2023
Biodiversity is the basis of life on Earth. We live biodiversity, we eat biodiversity and we are biodiversity. Without it, our world would be lifeless. The Earth's diverse ecosystems provide us with essential services, from clean air and water to food and medicine. In today's rapidly changing wor...
22/05/2023
Desde 2018, se han designado 24 nuevos SIPAM en 12 países. Estos sistemas representan no solo asombrosos entornos naturales, sino también prácticas agrícolas que crean medios de subsistencia en zonas rurales y, al mismo tiempo, combinan biodiversidad, ecosistemas resilientes, tradición e innovación.