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Sustainably reducing deforestation and conserving biodiversity requires an overhaul in the global trade and harvesting of wood products – UN’s FAO
22/11/2019
Changing the ways in which wood is harvested and traded for timber, paper and other uses is essential to fighting deforestation and the negative...
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Green Climate Fund approves programmes to fight climate change in Chile, Kyrgyzstan and Nepal
13/11/2019
FAO joint projects worth $161 million to support carbon sequestration and small scale farmers'resilience
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Helping countries better monitor and report on forest and land-use under the Paris Climate Agreement
11/11/2019
FAO and GEF team up in new project to make forest data more transparent, accessible and available
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Global cooperation and climate friendly technologies are key to tackling global food loss and waste
08/11/2019
Rome – FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu said today international co-operation and innovative, climate friendly technologies were...
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FAO, UN partners warn of disproportional impacts from climate change on land use and food security in Asia-Pacific
28/10/2019
Bangkok, Thailand. Asia’s vast landmass and growing cities are warming faster than the global average and that will have a disproportional...
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Evidence-based decision-making for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Kyrgyz Republic
16/10/2019
A new draft report for the FAO Disaster Risk Reduction project in the Kyrgyz Republic...
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Side events on climate change and food security at CFS46
11/10/2019
Several side events at next week’s forty-sixth plenary session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) focus specifically on achieving food...
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Countering climate change with innovation
10/10/2019
Innovation is key to ensuring access to water, food and income in the face of climate change
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FAO and the IPCC – linking the science to climate action at country level
07/10/2019
At a high-level discussion on the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) called...
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Agriculture experts call for harmonized guidelines on climate action
02/10/2019
Agriculture experts from 36 countries gathered in Rome from 25-27 September to exchange ideas on ways to implement the Koronivia Joint Work on...
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Joining forces to fight climate change in Senegal: the SAGA has begun
27/09/2019
Dakar - The Government of Senegal, together with the Government of Quebec, FAO, and over seventy representatives from the public,...
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New pathway for food systems development
26/09/2019
FAO’s leader points to the need to turn food systems into accelerators of the SDGs
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Planet satellites bolster FAO’s geospatial toolkit
23/09/2019
Innovative forest monitoring platform SEPAL 2.1 goes mobile
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Rural youth: protecting the climate through innovation
22/09/2019
How FAO projects are encouraging youth to embrace technology and take the lead in the fight against climate change
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A Great Green Wall for Cities
20/09/2019
FAO’s Director-General announces new plan to support nature-based solutions to climate change
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FAO, EU boost early warning system on climate in Tajikistan
13/09/2019
Because every facet of agricultural activity depends on the weather, unpredictable weather patterns caused by climate change and other meteorological...
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New FAO paper on drought preparedness launched at UNCCD COP14
11/09/2019
Report provides new insights on managing droughts to safeguard food security
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We need better stewardship of our land to tackle climate change, safeguard food security and conserve biodiversity
08/08/2019
FAO welcomes IPCC special report on the link between climate change, land and food
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Green Climate Fund approves major FAO climate change resilience project in Pakistan
08/07/2019
The project is worth over $47 million and stands to directly benefit 1.3 million people
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Unlocking the potential of agricultural innovation to improve farmers’ resilience to drought
25/06/2019
Unlocking the potential of agricultural innovations, be it simple solutions or satellite-based technologies, will help prevent a drought from turning...