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FAO supports innovative finance facility for tropical forest conservation
23/09/2025
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is supporting the design of an ambitious new global facility for securing the future...
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FAO and Iraqi Government hold high-level workshop for major Green Climate Fund project
22/09/2025
At a high-level inception workshop in Baghdad, Iraq took a major step forward with its first-ever Green Climate Fund project. The SRVALI initiative,...
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From vision to action: FAST Partnership sets out concrete steps in 2026 workplan
18/09/2025
New FAO analysis shows that, despite agrifood systems having the potential to reduce global emissions by a third, climate-related development finance...
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Sowing seeds, reaping resilience
09/09/2025
Women farmers in Cambodia are growing climate resilient – starting with rice seeds
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Climate finance week at FAO aims to deliver climate solutions through agrifood systems
08/09/2025
The 2025 Standing Committee on Finance Forum of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) kicked off at the headquarters of...
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New Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) in Italy and Japan push global total of designated sites past 100
27/08/2025
A former iron sand mine transformed into a terraced agro-silvo-pastoral system, a landscape of stone-walled citrus orchards in Japan, and an iconic...
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Beyond trees
23/07/2025
A new study co-authored by FAO and experts from 17 countries published in Nature Communications gives us a glimpse of what Earth’s terrestrial...
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Embracing Indigenous leadership in climate action
17/07/2025
As the global community confronts the escalating realities of climate change, Zambia faces increasingly urgent challenges. From destructive flash floods...
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How climate change impacts plant health - and why it matters for One Health
11/07/2025
Across the world, climate change is shifting the delicate balance that keeps plants – and everything they support - healthy. As temperatures rise, rains...
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Sites in the Republic of Korea, Portugal and Tajikistan recognized as Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems
09/07/2025
An integrated mountain agropastoral system in Tajikistan has become the first Central Asian addition to the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage...
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SCALA programme strengthens biodiversity-friendly adaptation in three regions
07/07/2025
The Scaling up Climate Ambition on Land Use and Agriculture (SCALA) programme,...
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Green Climate Fund approves a record $300 million for FAO-designed projects in Papua New Guinea, Saint Lucia and the Sahel
01/07/2025
Port Moresby/Rome - The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved projects worth more than $300 million that will protect forests in Papua...
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USD 42 million program launched for primary forests in Southeast Asia and the Pacific
27/06/2025
Chiang Mai, Thailand – Stretching from Bhutan to Papua New Guinea, the Indo-Malaya forest biome harbors one of the last major primary...
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Indicators guide adaptation for agrifood systems transformation
24/06/2025
As climate records continue to topple year after year, one thing has become clear; agricultural communities are on the frontlines of climate change...
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Beating plastic pollution in our food systems: FAO’s global action for World Environment Day 2025
05/06/2025
You don’t have to look far to see how plastic has worked its way into every corner of the agrifood system. Seedling trays, mulch films, irrigation tubing,...
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New data shows that crops like wheat, coffee, beans and cassava could lose half of the best land for growing them by 2100
05/06/2025
Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has upgraded its innovative ABC-Map geospatial...
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A voice of resilience
03/06/2025
Meet Khilamaya Nepali, a determined farmer from Nepal’s Churia region who is transforming her future through sustainable agriculture. Despite living...
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Agrifood systems in the voluntary carbon market: Growth with integrity can provide critical finance
29/05/2025
Agrifood systems play an important role in the voluntary carbon market (VCM), accounting for more than 10 percent of projects. But with only 1 percent...
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Six new sites recognized as Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems
21/05/2025
Rome - A traditional agroforestry system growing the erva-mate plant in Brazil, three sites in China specializing in pearl mussels,...
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Listening to bees, working for the planet: interview with two beekeepers in Casamance
20/05/2025
Bees are essential for pollination, food security and biodiversity preservation. World Bee Day, celebrated in 2025 under the theme “Bee inspired...