The meetings of the subsidiary bodies of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture have been postponed until further notice. As a consequence of the postponement of the meetings of the Commission’s intergovernmental technical working groups, its Group of National Focal Points for Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture and...

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FAO illuminated its headquarters in Rome yesterday evening with the green-white-red colours of the Italian "Tricolore" flag, as a sign of solidarity with its host country as it fights the Covid-19 pandemic. The light will stay on until the crisis ends.Since the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak, FAO has...

21 March is the International Day of Forests, and this year’s theme, ‘Forests and biodiversity’, raises awareness of how forests are vital for plant and animal species, providing a home to an estimated 80 percent of life on land. Biodiversity also helps forests adapt and survive in the face of pressures...

This is a critical moment for biodiversity. The “interlocking crises of biodiversity loss, environmental degradation, and climate change amounts to the greatest market failure of all time”, as remarked by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema - Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).  It is evident that there is...