The FAO Biodiversity Knowledge Hub centralizes FAO’s key resources and information on biodiversity across agrifood systems. The platform supports countries in strengthening their knowledge and capabilities to implement the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF), advance the achiev...

Rome -  350 000 species of pollinators are the invisible workforce underpinning global food security, biodiversity and rural livelihoods. Approximately 90 percent of flowering plants and 75 percent of major food crops depend, at least in part, on pollination by inse...

Developed by the Biodiversity Mainstreaming Unit in the Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment, with financial support from the Governments of the Netherlands and Switzerland, the course supports countries and stakeholders in their efforts to mainstream biodiversity across agrifoo...

The FAO Biodiversity Knowledge Hub centralizes FAO’s key resources and information on biodiversity across agrifood systems. The platform supports countries in strengthening their knowledge and capabilities to implement the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (...

Agrifood systems are playing an increasingly central role in countries’ biodiversity strategies and actions, according to preliminary findings presented during a High-Level Roundtable hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) at its head...

The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) concluded its twelfth session yesterday in Manchester, UK. During the meeting, delegates approved the Summary for Policymakers of the Business and Biodiversity Assessment Report and reached agr...

Africa is losing the plant diversity that underpins food security and nutrition, climate resilience and livelihoods across the continent. This is according to the Third Report on the State of the World’s Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, which was launche...

The Third Report on the State of the World’s Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (Third Report), published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), presents the results of a global assessment of progress on the conservation and s...

Hosted by the United Kingdom, the twelfth session of the Intergovernmental Science‑Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES12) opened today in Manchester, bringing together governments, experts, and UN agencies to advance the global biodiversity scie...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has welcomed the entry into force of the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National ...

How can we transform our agrifood systems to both withstand climate shocks and help tackle the climate crisis?

The shared agricultural heritage sustaining communities and forests in southern Brazil 

The Eleventh Session of the Governing Body (GB-11) of the FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture concluded past midnight after a week of intense deliberations, marked by strong engagement from all delegations and resulting in the ado...

Conservation, sustainable use and development of forest genetic resources are of vital importance to the management and utilization of the world’s forests and other wooded lands, including agroforestry systems. These resources, i.e. the heritable materials maintained wit...

FAO’s 80th anniversary was also a pivotal year for the teams working under the Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment.  

The Secretariat of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture joins the celebrations of this year’s International Mountain Day under the theme “Glaciers matter for water, food and livelihoods in mountains and beyond”.

Today is a powerful reminder...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) yesterday launched The International Year of the Woman Farmer 2026, a global campaign aimed at recognizing women’s indispensable yet often overlooked contributions to global agrifood systems and to galvan...

Brazil is moving decisively to strengthen the governance of its genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge by taking significant steps to improve transparency, compliance and access and benefit-sharing across its growing bioeconomy. The country’s environmenta...

UN designates 2026 as a year to highlight the vital role of rangelands and pastoralists in sustainable food production, ecosystem preservation and climate change mitigation and adaptation

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched a series of five regional workshops on aquatic genetic resource monitoring and reporting.