The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, today told a gathering of experts, diplomats and senior officials that the agricultural world and the environmental world needed to “listen to each other and collaborate.” He was speaking at the Global Dialogue on the Role...

The Food and Agriculture Organization, in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, will hold a Global Dialogue on the Role of Food and Agriculture in the Global Biodiversity Framework and its High-level Segment. This event will raise awareness of ongoing international policy processes on biodiversity...

Like agriculture and climate change, agriculture and biodiversity, and hence food security, are interconnected in both a negative and a positive sense. In this article, our author describes what we know about the links, what role the agricultural sectors have to play in the sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity...

Global biodiversity is severely threatened, including that which we depend upon for food, as the 2019 landmark report on the State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture showed. The Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA) at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation is the only permanent intergovernmental body...

Conserving biodiversity is a central part of making peace with nature, and every person, sector and institution has a role to play, global leaders concurred at a United Nations (UN) virtual event today. "We are all part of the solution and you can count on the food and agriculture sector to...